I am sure that many people may have heard that WordPress.org teams are going to switch to Slack from IRC for collaboration and online meetings. Please note the parts in that sentence that I’ve added emphasis to.
Earlier this morning I posted the following into the WordPress Slack #forum channel.
This Slack channel is not the place to seek support, it’s for WordPress team members to discuss forum and support issues for the teams. For asking that question please consider posting to the support forums via https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform or in the IRC channel for support https://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#wordpress
Just to make it clear:
The #wordpress IRC channel is the place for users to seek live online support.
That can be accessed via your favorite IRC client or this Freenode weblink. At this time the Slack channel #forum is replacing team conversations only. That will be the location for of our weekly meetups and the Blue Welcome Box will be updated to reflect that.
I encourage everyone to visit make.wordpress.org/chat and signup. The web page works well and I really like the Mac beta client For the Mac the beta is a better client, I have not use the web page extensively yet.