Alternative Rust Discussion Venues
As you may have noticed, on June 12th this subreddit was among the 8,000 subreddits that participated in the blackout protesting Reddit's upcoming API changes (please see our original announcement linked here). While many subreddits remain closed indefinitely, on r/rust we are attempting to strike a balance between the deliberate disruption required by the protest and our role as a source of news and information for users of Rust. However, the fact remains that Reddit is becoming more hostile to discussion-focused subreddits like ours, and as of July 1st all third-party Reddit apps will cease to function, which will have a deleterious effect on many of our readers.
To help facilitate continued participation in the broader Rust community for anyone here who will be affected by the loss of third-party apps, here is a list of alternative Rust discussion venues:
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The Official Rust Users Forum: https://users.rust-lang.org/
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The #general channel on the Official Rust Zulip: https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/122651-general
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The Rust Community Discord: https://discord.gg/rust-lang-community (note: Discord, like Reddit, is a proprietary platform)
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The #rust channel on the Official Mozilla Matrix: https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#rust:mozilla.org
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The #rust channel on the Official Matrix Homeserver: https://app.element.io/#/room/#rust:matrix.org
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The ##rust channel on Libera.Chat IRC: https://web.libera.chat/##rust
You may notice that, of the listed venues, only the Rust Users Forum resembles a conventional asynchronous forum like Reddit, and unlike Reddit it features flat comment threads rather than Reddit's tree-style comment threads. To reiterate the plea from our prior announcement: we desperately need viable Reddit replacements. We encourage our users to do the Rust community a service by establishing and promoting new Reddit-style platforms, in order to provide attractive alternatives in the likely event that Reddit continues to degrade in usability. We ask that people leave comments below linking to any forums of this nature; in the future, once we have experience with these alternative forums, we may decide to officially endorse them in similar fashion to the venues above.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to message the mods.
