On 2025-08-20 19:35, Mark Prosser via NANOG wrote:
I was chatting with some industry colleagues recently and I realized that various sectors of our industry are not "online" in the spaces I'm online.
Perhaps there was a time when most of us were on mailing lists & IRC, but now the communities seem fragmented and behind walled gardens (Mainly Discord and Slack .. the latter is deleting our messages faster and faster).
Personally, I'm subscribed to several discord groups (including NANOG), several slack groups, a few mailing lists, IRC (I'm not on that often these days), one or two Matrix groups, IETF Zulip...
This quickly becomes cumbersome and I find myself mainly in Packet Pushers & NAF Slack groups -- while being "reachable" in other places. I feel like I'm missing out on conversations outside of the few bubbles I participate in.
Where do you spend most of your time, outside of this mailing list? Why do you like it there? What kind of folks hangout there?
In addition to others mentioned, I'll visit reddit.com/r/networking on occasion. New networking folk seem to gravitate towards that forum. -Brian