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IRC is still there, the average age is way over 30 though. Whether that's a bad thing is for you to decide :)

Some IRC channels have moved to Telegram, a few larger communities over to Discord.

I still associate Slack strongly with work stuff and don't really want to have any non-work related things on there.

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The incoming message noise on slack always raises my heart rate like 5 BPM haha.

Recent TV ads for Slack have that notification sound. So annoying. Like police sirens in radio ads when you're in your car.

I'm so glad I'm not the only person who thinks this!

Similar thing here but with an alarm tone. The tone I used to get when paged while previously working for a FAANG seems to also be used for some function at a grocery store I frequent. So my BPM does the same jump every time I hear it.

Why do you have sound alerts on Slack? I thought turning them off was the norm (at least in my experience). I have all the alerts turned off except the notification banner/popup.

This is definitely a positive for me. Any suggestions for channels/networks to start with? Haven’t used IRC regularly in a decade+ which coincides with me being unable to make any new online friends since then. Facebook seems to be where a lot of “older” folk have moved to but i refuse to engage with that platform.

https://libera.chat is where people migrated after Freenode ... imploded. It's mostly FOSS stuff, programming languages and software.

XKCD has their own IRC channel(s) too: https://xkcd.com/about/

I'm over a year from having a boss who was a slack tyrant and I'm almost able to use slack without some dread.

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