Ripgrep: Gitter room?

[chopfitzroy]

Would it be possible to setup a Gitter room where everyone can chat without having to post an issue?

Cheers.

[BurntSushi]

I admit, I find it a little weird for ripgrep to have a dedicated chat room. Filing issues seems like it ought to be enough.

With that said, if we do pursue this, I'd rather use IRC.

[BurntSushi]

I'm just going to close this. I continue to think a chat room for a tool like this is a bit overkill.

If you want to chat with me, I'm usually on the various IRC/Mozilla Rust channels. #rust for Rust specific stuff, but #rust-offtopic will work for ripgrep stuff. If ripgrep traffic gets too heavy, then we can fork off into our own channel.

[BurntSushi]

Since I've been linking people to this issue when they ask for a chat room, I figured I'd add a bit more context and some updates.

Firstly, I no longer hang around on IRC. The only chat rooms I visit these days are the Rust Discord server and the rust-lang Zulip server. If you ping me on either of those places, I should see it.

Secondly, the problem with an officially endorsed chat room is that they require moderation. I am on the Rust moderation team, but I cannot spend my days sitting in a chat room moderating it.

As a compromise, I reached out to GitHub and specifically requested access to their Discussions beta program. You are now encouraged to post questions---any kind of question---in ripgrep's discussion board: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/discussions