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by karel-3d 413 days ago
You can still ask your Zig question on Stack Overflow, or they have a semi-official Discourse forum Ziggit (which I find preferable to Discord) where I got answers quickly...

Zig Discord is also just semi-official... there is also Slack, there is also mailing list, libera IRC, Telegram, QQ, Zulip...

https://github.com/ziglang/zig/wiki/Community
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koakuma-chan 413 days ago
> Zig Discord is also just semi-official

Is the Zig creator not there? I'm pretty sure he is.

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kristoff_it 413 days ago
No, Andrew deleted his Discord account a while ago. Regardless, having the creator present does not make a space official, it's a matter of who owns the space and what the general policy is.

The general policy of the Zig Software Foundation is to not have blessed community spaces outside of spaces used strictly for coordinating the development of Zig (those currently are the Ziglang GitHub Organization and the ZSF Zulip), so all communities are equally non-official.

The main Zig Discord server is owned by community members and is actually not even the only Zig server on Discord.

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wmedrano 413 days ago
I thought the Zig creator abandoned Discord due to invasive ads sometime last year.
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atiedebee 413 days ago
That wouldn't necessarily make it official though
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