Ask HN: Are non-free Slack Communities worth the cost?

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Hi HN ! I see a lot of Slack based communities annonced here. A lot of them aren't free. Are they worth the cost ? Could you share with us your exepriences ?

Thanks and have a good day !

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I've never seen this, but I think IRC would be the de-facto alternate to these "hip" communities.

In the end, you will go where you can benefit most, so if paying $5 bucks a month gets you speaking to smarter people, folks will do it.

I still think IRC is the place you go to for tech-talk (sadly everyone has ended up on Freenode though).

Why's Freenode sad? (genuinely curious)

Although it is my opinion on the situation, having all IRC centralized onto 1 "network" kind of reduces the redundancy that many different networks would bring by just existing.

Centralized IRC defeats the purpose of IRC

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