Hi, I’m personally not an IRC user but I try to keep an eye on the IRC logs. For personal reasons I haven’t had time to do since the start of the year but I spent some time tonight to browse the archives.
Since January there were somewhere between 5 and 10 persons asking questions and NO ONE got a timely reply. On the other hand we have had a slow but steady stream of questions on users@ and they have received replies from different members of the community. I think the lack of replies on IRC reflects badly on the community. I’m not able to put any energy into following the IRC channels and I cannot ask anyone else either. But I think the mailing lists could absorb these questions and give timely answers. For this reason, I suggest that we discontinue the IRC channels (remove them from libera.chat) or at least change the topic to indicate that they are no longer “official” and to refer all questions to the mailing lists. The website should of course be updated accordingly. Kind regards Daniel Sahlberg
