Jay stickied the discussion .
BSD community chat/group links
Main Room/Group lives on Matrix but is also bridged to Telegram, Discord and Slack. 
“Only the paranoid survive.”
― Harold Finch
NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108
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Here is one for GhostBSD Eric started the other day.
https://t.me/GhostBSD_Gamers
And the main GhostBSD one
https://t.me/ghostbsd
3 months later
I created a GhostBSD matrix, Eric said it was fine with him.
https://app.element.io/#/room/#ghostbsd:matrix.org
2 months later
FreeBSD's Discord: https://discord.com/invite/n2wshsy for more information take a look at https://wiki.freebsd.org/Discord
25 days later
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Join my space UnitedBSD https://matrix.to/#/!MlMvbsRojElumWBFWi:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=tapenet.org&via=phreake.rs
“Only the paranoid survive.”
― Harold Finch
NetBSD VPS , NetBSD , OS108
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@Jay I know that the IRC channel doesn't get a huge amount of traffic, but I wonder if we could possibly move #UnitedBSD from Freenode to Libera.chat ?
EDIT: I've now dropped freenode completely. Personal choice, but one that many also agree with. food for thought.
2 months later
For the FR, about OpenBSD, We have community:
- IRC: irc.geeknode.net #obsd4a
- matrix: #obsd4a:matrix.fdn.fr
a year later
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pfr I know that the IRC channel doesn't get a huge amount of traffic, but I wonder if we could possibly move #UnitedBSD from Freenode to Libera.chat ?
THe IRC channel used to be very lively at a time when the forum either didn't exist, or was more generally oriented towards *BSD deskop computing. Like a UnixHub for BSD to give you an idea. At the time, the FreeBSD community was facing a difficult moment, due to some divisive choices from the project, the drama brought by the introduction of the very criticized former CoC, and the influx of a bunch on trolls on the official forum: this made UnitedBSD more attreacting to some users. Later on, after moving over Flarum, and losing part of its former userbase across the migration, the focus of UnitedBSD shifted towards NetBSD and OpenBSD in this order, possibly attracting some traffic from DeamonForums, whose community was mainly on OpenBSD and NetBSD.
Within the last few years, the activity on Reddit and Matrix has grown exponentially, and this imho substracted some attention from things like IRC, mailing lists, forums, not to mention the newsgroups on comp.unix.bsd., which have become completely dormant in the last years.
This is just just my very opinionated persepctive.
should we advertsise the newsgroups too? the problem is providing a direct link to join, as most browsers nowadays do not support nntp.
18 days later
Jay added the Sticky Note tag .
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pin removed the Sticky Note tag .
2 months later
IRC: IRCNet (open.ircnet.net) #NetBSD (50+ Idlers), #freeBSD, #openBSD (+k Requires keyword, or the channel has been taken over).
Used to use IRCNet late 90s for Amiga and telephony stuff
JuvenalUrbino the problem is providing a direct link to join, as most browsers nowadays do not support nntp.
The problem is that today's browsers are broken. :-P
14 days later
yeti I'm curious now, what browsers do still support nntp today?
Start looking at Seamonkey?
a year later
Hello all,
There is also BSD Multi User Chat (MUC) rooms on XMPP:
BSD: xmpp:bsd@conference.tilda.center?join
FreeBSD: xmpp:freebsd@muc.xmpp.fi?join
And for Usenet:
nttp://comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
nttp://comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
nttp://comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
a year later
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Berkeley Forest is open and online but what is it!?
(Please, Come take the Tour!)
- Fully Functioning online Library of BSD info!
- Meeting space for small and large group meetups!
- Places to hang out with friends.
- Specific spaces dedicated to primary BSD's.
- no travel voucher needed!
- and it's still growing!
Build Process: 1min
Forest Views: 2min
Accessible directly from your BSD Desktop browser or Mobile device! Hardware Requirements
-Ben
See linked Invitation PDF:
