The Meteor Chef has a slack channel with nearly 700 users: http://slack.themeteorchef.com/
I still feel itād be cool to have a central Meteor channel. I guess meteor/meteor on Gitter is the closest thing right now? (I donāt like IRC personally, just find it a bad overall user experience). What about using Rocket Chat?
Try:
https://forums.meteor.com/users?period=all
which gives: 5406 users in total of all time
Past quarter active: 1219 users
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Ouch!
I take it all back! 
It was 1 thousand active last quarter 
So how Rocket Chat scale ?
We have 2.5k+ members in Learn MeteorJS properly FB group and the Slack onboarding process is really PITA.
Any1 know if Rocket Chat can scale to higher counts and joining is more automatic without need to code whole API process for us ?
Regards
Robert
Maybe I am a bit late, but what about a rocket chat instance hosted on galaxy. @sashko talked about apollo and working togehter w/ the rocket chat team. This could be used as an opportunity to test and get more knowledge about how things work under load and what could be improved.
all this while the whole community has one place for instant messageing.
or is this already happening and Iāve missed it?
cc @nickcoe
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Are we about reinventing the wheel?
Honestly, why donāt you stick to the real chat network - IRC?
Two years from now there will be another ānew hypedā web chat product again. Are you all going to move there then? What if #slack isnāt free anymore? It is not about riding the newest horse it is better to ride a reliable one 
IRC is scalable, free, open and simply reliable. Splitting up the community by using different chat tools is not a good idea - IMHO. It weakens the community.
Just my two cents.
@meetfred Iām on Slack ( http://slack.themeteorchef.com), Gitter ( https://gitter.im/meteor/meteor) and IRC (#meteor on freenode) everyday and what I notice is that IRC community is gradually slowing down, while Slack and Gitter stay pretty active. IRC is clearly losing this battle, which pains me as an op, but I can totally understand that.
Too bad Slack is divided into #general, #random, #help, #beginner-help, #intermediate-help and #advanced-help with people asking beginner stuff on #advanced-help because they donāt want to feel like beginners. It makes it pretty inconvenient to help people, especially on phones and low end desktops where Slack isnāt that fast.
Anyways, all of you guys are more than welcome on #meteor irc channel (server chat.freenode.net). And to Slack and Gitter too. 
Also, donāt forget that itās not only about getting help from others. Itās about helping others too!
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I just started a Meteor chat server on Discord. Details here: Meteor online chat! Open to everyone, no invites needed
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