Our aim is to move into this forum some of the conversations that commonly happen on IRC and other linear cross-topic discussion methods, so that it’s easier to find subjects, learn about their progress, and provide feedback when that’s the case. Our hope is also that the thousands of messages produced every week by the development team and collaborators around it become historical documents better organized for easier consumption, thus encouraging participation further.
For that reason, prefer the forum. It’s okay to create short topics when that’s really necessary, but search around first and see if somebody else isn’t already talking about that subject under a more broad thread. Those short topics will often end up being long topics, with much insight being exchanged inside them which will be appreciated by others when they join the conversation or simply browse around to understand details.
One good trick is this: respond somebody’s question on IRC with a forum topic link.
Yes, the plan is actually to move the mailing list entirely here (unlike IRC, which will stay around). Let’s just get comfortable here first and then work to make this happen.
Rocket and IRC are very similar from the perspective of the points made above. I mentioned IRC in the topic mainly because the vast majority of the close community hangs there right now, but we’re researching about ways to integrate IRC and Rocket Chat, turning them effectively into a single thing.
