[rufugee]

I personally use freenode all the time. That's where I get the best advice and great tech support from many open source projects. In fact, when selecting an open source project, I consider it a serious knock against it if it doesn't have a freenode channel. I personally can't stand using Slack and am always disappointed when a project requires me to do so...

[dewey]

Agreed, it’s always so odd to see an open source project using Discord or Slack. You basically just throw all your support work and knowledge into someone’s proprietary silo. In a few years you’ll never be able to find anything that was already discussed.

IRC Channels on freenode are usually archived or at least a bunch of people have a local archive of everything.