I'm looking for a kind of chat room to idle in with other freelancers. I would like the social presence of similar people, but co-working spaces don't suit me.
Ideally not a forum or reddit subgroup - I want to just socialize without writing walls of text in response to old forum questions.
Reactiflux: https://www.reactiflux.com/
Not freelancing specific but there's a lot of pretty knowledgeable people in #jobs-advice, plenty of banter, and sometimes I get a technical question answered too. It's probably the most active chat-style programming community out there.
And here's a freelancing specific one:
And this one: https://www.jasonswett.net/the-secret-alliance-of-freelance-...