Place to Hangout for Developers?

Hi HN, I'm a junior web developer, but I have interest in computing in general. In my geographic location, I have a hard time finding people with similar interests as those that I have seen in Hacker News, which I believe are similar to mine. What would be a good chat/conversational community to join? I have heard of Discord and other services, but I have never used any of those before. Thanks.