Racket community online

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I recently tried to work out where racket users communicate online.

I thought it was interesting so I’m sharing here.

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Places we find racket users.

  • r/Racket has over 6904 subscribers
  • https://twitter.com/racketlang has 6869 followers
  • Racket Discord has 1239 members but is quite active.
  • Racket Slack - mostly professional devs
  • #racket IRC
  • Discourse replaces the google groups mailing list that was being overrun with spam. OSS/free hosting/no google/has a spam filter.
  • there is also presence on Facebook, LinkedIn, telegram
  • there has also been experiments with GitHub discussions
  • 3.7k subscribers on YouTube
  • some racket content is posted on mastodon

If racket has a presence on a particular platform it is because racket users post there. There is no planned communication strategy. Discourse was the only deliberate choice because of the spam.

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Interesting. Do you have any sense of the posting frequency on reddit, discord, and slack? I think that's another important measure of activity, and one that allows more direct comparisons.

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It is my impression that discord is busier than Slack or Reddit.

I’m sure discord and slack have a ‘dashboard’. I’m not sure about Reddit.