Glad to see #Ansible community building a forum. Apparently Matrix/IRC connections broke, and I never got into Matrix, so it's nice to have an asynchronous communication route. https://forum.ansible.com
I love forums, maybe the best thing the death of IRC + Twitter brings back?
@geerlingguy how did it break?
either way, forums are better for having organized, searchable history
https://libera.chat/news/matrix-bridge-disabled-retrospective is the take from Libera, matrix.org has some posts on it too. Messy business.
Can't disagree on having proper project archives, though 
In many ways Usenet was a best asynchronous messaging system 
@geerlingguy
IRC cannot die
@jherazob dying then... I still wish it weren't
@geerlingguy
Nope! The world will be in flames, bands of mutants roaming the wastelands, the biosphere almost collapsed, robot armies led by a ChatGPT descendant hunting humans, and there will still be people on IRC sharing places to forage for still not expired food
@jherazob hehe true. And some Hams rag chewing
@geerlingguy definitely agree forums, much prefer forums to other online communications, especially for support and questions
@geerlingguy IRC is not dead :p
@geerlingguy i absolutely adore forums. Bring back forums!! I was a mod on a few. The original Discord mods
@geerlingguy I expect I am in the minority but I would prefer to take discussions to news://nntp.ansible.com/ansible.*
@geerlingguy I like forums too. Curious to see this one being created as Red Hat recently killed the Keycloak one as one channel too many: https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/discussions/21112
@geerlingguy I'd rather see NNTP/Usenet, IRC, and mailing lists make a comeback. :-)
@geerlingguy Ah is this a discourse instance? Nice