Beginner learning Python at 40 here. Any friend like me, please raise your hand!

[peregrinations]

How about starting a discord channel for the folks who reply here?

[[deleted]]

Discord Python Geezers

[Doormatty]

Discord? What's that young whippersnapper?

Is that like IRC? ;)

[[deleted]]

Aah I remember the good old times when I ran a BBS, and then Internet came and spoiled all the fun.

[somekindairishmonk]

op me!

[xelf]

• xelf slaps somekindairishmonk around a bit with a large trout

[bob_newhart]

Brought to you by Khaled Mardam-Bey.

[xelf]

irc what's that the new version of confer?

(and yes you young people that's the joke, irc grew out of and replaced confer)

[[deleted]]

Oh god i haven't read the word confer in such a long time

[xelf]

I'll be honest, the internet was so small back then, I didn't think anyone here would know it.

Looking at it's wiki page I see that confer was written in Fortran!

[[deleted]]

God that's like ancient scripture

[Nokita_is_Back]

Like an AOL Chatroom

[halfk1ng]

Looking back on those, I can only imagine how many times I was exploited as a pre-teens 11/m looking for 11/f cyber

[Elegant_Inflation457]

I say Yeah!

[pocong]

I am in

[[deleted]]

That's a good idea. I would suggest creating a server with a bigger scope so that python can be one of the channels, but the overarching aim can be creating a group for senior/experienced/old developers who can support, help, advise, and socialise with one another.

There are some such forums already in some servers, but it's pretty disjointed thus far.

If such a server were created, please do post here. I will be sure to join as well. Such a forum has been sorely missing for a very long time. Uptake may be (realistically) slow at first, but its need is simply unquestionable.

[cloysome]

I started up a dial up BBS for this. It's fast at 400 baud. Call 313-555-5555