Where are all the gophers?

[nellfs]

Oi! I’ve been spending some time on the forum recently, and I’m trying to find more gophers to talk about Go and check out cool Go projects, what other communities are active with a lot of gophers? I know about discord, but I can’t be very active there, so I want to know your recommendations about Go communities in other apps

[pekim (Mike D Pilsbury)]

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/ is reasonably active.

[nellfs]

Thanks for the suggestion! Is there any channel that is a chat? Like Matrix or even Slack

[Dean_Davidson]

There’s an official slack channel:

https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/

I haven’t joined it (I don’t use Slack) so I’m not sure how active it is but it has over 100,000 members so I imagine it’s pretty active.

[FelicianoTech (Ricardo N Feliciano)]

I prefer forums over chat so I would really hope the admins here make a marketing effort for activity.

[nellfs]

Hi Feliciano! I haven’t seen you on the forum for a while, I’ve been following some of your posts on your blog, how are you doing?

Yes, I also like the interaction on the forums because it’s easier to filter conversation topics, and the answers tend to be more complete, I hope to see more folks around the forum

[FelicianoTech (Ricardo N Feliciano)]

I forgot to mention, I tend to like forums over most chat programs due to the fact that forum pages are indexed by search engines. It makes it much, much easier, in the long-term, for new people to discover community content when it comes up in Google, Duck Duck Go, whatever. Conversations in Slack or Discord tend to get lost in the ether.

@nellfs

how are you doing

I’m good, thanks. Hopefully you too.

[maumau]

We have to avoid the consolidation of the internet into the hands of a few giant corporations.
Stick to our communities that are hosted independently!

[christophberger]

And if anybody wants to run their own forum, Answer.dev is a fully functional forum software written in Go

[nellfs]

That’s a cool project!