Ask HN: What are good freelancing chat communities?

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I'm looking for a kind of chat room to idle in with other freelancers. I would like the social presence of similar people, but co-working spaces don't suit me.

Ideally not a forum or reddit subgroup - I want to just socialize without writing walls of text in response to old forum questions.

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Here are two that I enjoy participating in.

Reactiflux: https://www.reactiflux.com/

Not freelancing specific but there's a lot of pretty knowledgeable people in #jobs-advice, plenty of banter, and sometimes I get a technical question answered too. It's probably the most active chat-style programming community out there.

And here's a freelancing specific one:

And this one: https://www.jasonswett.net/the-secret-alliance-of-freelance-...

You seem to have missed out the second link

Whoops, I didn't sleep much last night. Just meant it to be the one all the way at the bottom.

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