Posted on 12/1/2015, 2:22 am, by Colin Charles, under
General.
IRC never really went away. If you are a participant in the opensource world, there’s a good chance you’ve fired up an IRC client to connect to your project channel (eg. #maria) to chat with people involved with the project.
Slack is becoming really popular, and from what I can tell, it looks very much like IRC. I tried Kik again, when I read Hashtags as Social Networks. This is IRC – with a channel limit (50 users). The twist is that its mobile, since you’re quite happily doing this kind of chat on your mobile phone.
Posted on 2/5/2014, 5:31 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
There are many MySQL related IRC discussion channels as the ecosystem itself grows. I join the following. Are there any that I’m missing?
Freenode (irc.freenode.net):
- #mysql – main channel for all kinds of end user MySQL related discussions (the noisiest of the lot, naturally)
- #maria – main channel for all kinds of MariaDB related discussions
- #webscalesql – for all kinds of WebScaleSQL discussions
- #percona – main channel for all kinds of Percona related discussions
- #tokutek – main channel for Tokutek discussions (TokuDB or TokuMX)
- SkySQL-specific channels: #maxscale and #mariadb-mgr
OFTC (irc.oftc.net):
- #debian-mysql – for all kinds of Debian MySQL related bits (packaging, bugs, etc.)
