The Gitter room https://gitter.im/polybar/polybar should serve a similar
purpose as the IRC room with the benefit that messages persist and can
be received when offline.
From now on gitter should be the place where the polybar community
lives. Reddit is great for asking longer questions in the style of a
forum but not so great for quick back and forth conversations. IRC is
better in that aspect but has the serious downside that you have to stay
connected to get an answer and messages are not logged (only by your
client).
Both reddit and IRC are here to stay and I will still check them
regularly, but we should encourage people to join gitter.
The issue tracker should be for bugs only. Right now actual bugs can
easily fall through the cracks because we get stuck answering questions
and basically providing tech support.
This move is also intended to have more traffic to our subreddit and IRC
channel with the hope that the community can also help itself out.
Adding this file to the root of the project will make a note appear when
opening a new issue, asking the user to first read this document.
As proposed in #802
patrick96