I and some other folks have put together this little community server for the purposes of CA-related chitchat. It's not intended to be a replacement to these forums, but rather a supplementary platform on which to discuss ideas that might not be deserving of a whole post here. There are seven channels, besides "rules" and "announcements":
- general-discussion: for any CA- or conwaylife.com-related discussion
- questions-help: Q/A and assistance with search programs and the like
- cgol: Life-specific conversation; there's been some cool construction talk going on here
- other-ca: Non-CGoL CA discussion
- other-math: Non-CA-related maths discussion
- off-topic: Catch-all for non-CA discussion
- sandbox: Spam channel
...and that's about it. I hope it can find its niche – please do join!
Original title: Would there be interest in a sort of community 'IM' chat?
Original body: I think it'd be pretty nice to have, alongside these forums, a quick and/or 'casual' way of discussing CA and sharing small patterns & trivial speculation and the like. As far as I'm aware, Discord is currently the de facto solution for this sort of thing; would anyone be interested in putting together a server?
(I know Gustavo tried to set up a conwaylife IRC like two years ago, but AFAIK that never picked up steam, perhaps in part due to IRC's relative obscurity nowadays?)