TLDR:  LiberaChat #povray channel does exist.


.....And reading this discussion reminded me how long I had forgotten to connect
to the Liberachat and say hi ! to people who have always been there for years
and did always answer ! Thank you tTh and KurtzLePirate !

I'm sure 00face and Saul Luizaga didn't mean to really insult people and just
spoke from a passionate perspective, we probably all felt it, end I'm proud of
being part of this community which was able to receive a little friendly rant,
without escalating to hostility.

The point they made is that maybe some people especially beginners prefer to
chat more informally before posting stuff on such a well archived and searchable
place as here.

Also existing are...
2 Facebook groups, a continuous Mastodon hashtag activity, Blenderartists.org
povray tag  ... But yes none of this is real time... (except there's messenger
on FB but it's too private and suffers the same issue of data exploitation as
Discord and Telegram)

The point to be made is that if people don't answer faster, it's because they
can't, (and might even refrain from joining such channels for that reason)
.....unless you (the faster-moving ones) do answer to those in demand. Thanks for
this important contribution ! ;-)

* Liberachat IRC is not that bad of a start ! And the good thing is you don't
have to choose, you can use all of the mentioned networks ! Since I joined one
of the facebook group (Persistence of Vision ...Forever), it went from 4 to 69
persons! and Fans of POV-Ray has been around the current 232 for longer.


For years I tried not to be too far from where the POV "crowd" could federate,
and it did come along by and by, we can count on about a hundred persons on any
of these currently (the same people). So indeed your endeavor to reach more
can't hurt ! (just be aware of the flaws of such a platform, making it a
potentially less appreciated tool from people like us) I am going to join your
discord, but of course since I don't trust discord at all, it may very well
never get to be my favorite solution as happened in the past!

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