As a data point for where newer language communities have ended up, Rust is
on Discord and Zulip.

On Fri., May 14, 2021, 19:14 Dong-hee Na, <donghee...@python.org> wrote:

> Believe it or not, there are people who are not familiar with the IRC
> culture.
> And those people are who enter the opensource culture after the 2010s.
> That period coincides with the growth of GitHub.
>
> So I'm also a supporter of new communication tools.
> Here the list below is my consideration.
>
> a) Are people familiar?
> If the tools are widely used by the tech company, I'd like to give the
> score.
> Because if the people are not familiar, it loses accessibility and maybe
> nobody use after some period.
>
> b) Does it has a thread feature?
> I believe that most of the core devs need this feature since I observe
> that we discuss some topics intensively for long periods of time.
>
> c) Does it has a secret channel?
>
> d) Can we get a sponsor from the provider or PSF for using the tools.
> Because most of the tools have a subscription system and without that, we
> can not use the advanced features.
> For example, with free tier Slack, we lose old historical data.
>
> So here is final my preferred list of that consideration
> >>>  ["Slack", "Discord", "Teams"]
>
> But my personal recent experience with the Discord public server was not
> that good.
> Because I got a lot of personal talks invitation that is actually spam
> or scam.
> So I exit the channel after the sprint is ended even though I use Discord
> personally.
> If we choose Discord, I'd like to suggest creating a new server for PSF,
> not the rendezvous with the existed server.
> This is the same opinion with Slack if we have the possibility to meet
> with the same issue.
>
> Regards,
> Dong-hee
>
>
> 2021년 5월 14일 (금) 오전 8:39, Senthil Kumaran <sent...@python.org>님이 작성:
>
>> Hello Core Dev,
>>
>> I find a need for a core-dev chat service, wherein I could engage in
>> some quick effervescent conversations.
>>
>> It is like a team chat, that is popular with remote work these days.
>> We even seem to have used Zoom Chat yesterday!
>>
>> * I know #python-dev in IRC exists, but it is mostly a channel for
>> bots to send notifications, and there are plenty.  I am not certain if
>> any core dev is active there. There was a time when this was active.
>> * We tried python discord last year, and were bit overwhelmed with the
>> number of channels and inability to customize
>> * There seems to be Slack called pyslackers too[1]. I am yet to try it.
>>
>> To have a proper team-chat, we need a service (a) as well as (b) team
>> using that.
>>
>> Does anyone else feel the need? Should we explore any? My thoughts and
>> options are
>>
>> a) Resurrect #python-dev - changing notifications to different group.
>> b) Request for core-dev in pyslackers Slack
>> c) Request for core-dev in Discord.
>>
>> Any other ideas are welcome.
>>
>> If you think that chatting is not a good idea, and a mailing list, and
>> discourse(discuss.python.org) are the best option, please share your
>> thoughts as well.
>>
>> If we feel a chat service will be a good idea for core-dev to
>> hangaround, then we can go to stage 2 of choosing the service by votes
>> in discourse (discuss.python.org).
>>
>>
>> Thank you,
>> Senthil
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