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Ask HN: What are some discord groups of programming which are of good quality?

14 points by philonoist ↗ HN
As much as I like to use publicly indexable sites, I am always at a loss of quality. Kindly recommend me some invite links.

Preferably those that are related to interviews and web development.

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tluyben2
The Idris group. It is very rich if you enjoy that type of thing.

I seriously do not like it isn’t publicly indexable. So much lovely stuff gets lost when they close a channel.

the_only_law
The Idris discord is interesting, very much has a more formal and academic community than most programming servers, but doesn’t over moderate or turn the server into an unusable bureaucratic mess. Most servers I’ve been in are of the “shitposts everywhere” variety or “micromanaged to death” variety.
hellohowareu
I'd start with:

1. What do I want to learn?

2. Regarding that particular topic's community: on which online chatroom platform is it most active?

For example, Discord hosts official communities for: Strapi (headless CMS framework), NestJS.

Whereas IRC (Libera server) hosts official communities for: NodeJS. I don't recall if other IRC channels I visit are official-- but it has many other great chat rooms.

Some are on both. For example (Note: I am not sure if this particular site represents Linux officially)--> "This is the official site for the Linux.Chat community, namely #linux on Libera and Linux.Chat on Discord" [1].

Note they list IRC first, Discord second. That's my approach in terms of prioritizing the two, as well: Personally I prefer IRC for its simplicity and old-school history & philosophy.

[1] https://linux.chat/