Which users here use the chat?

Question

The chat room has been largely empty for more than a year.

Since December 2019 the room has mainly been used by myself, uhoh, and David Z to post questions from other sites which would be of interest to Computational Scientists or HPC users. Every time I visit the chat though, there's zero people other than me, that have recently been in the chat room. So who actually would see such posts?

If you visit the chat room somewhat regularly (at least once every 2 weeks), perhaps you can comment or answer with some perspective of why you do it (or how often you do it, or why you don't do it, or what you know about the user chat usage here and why no one in this community likes to use chat anymore).

Answer 1

I visit the room occasionally (say, 2 times a week), mostly, as a moderator, to check if there is something that needs my attention. It rarely does.

I see the questions you are posting in the chat room, and some of them I find interesting. So, I would encourage you to continue (if nobody minds), unless you are not fine with having a very small audience.

Unfortunately, this community is not too active in the chat. Seems, like there is a community preference to do a pure Q/A, or a discussion in chat for particular questions, not via a general chat room.