I’m talking about GNU here.
I just can’t seem to figure out on how to use either of them to communicate. IRCs don’t save older messages, but instead logs them. And I guess for the same reason, it is impossible to discuss anything in depth.
Mailing list is really hard to read, as it is nowhere similar to forum or tree-style comments. I can’t figure out what mailing list to message to.
Get yourself an ssh account somewhere, maybe here : https://sdf.org/ or here https://tildeverse.org/ and use screen or tmux to keep your IRC client session alive, so you can scroll back to older messages. Make sure to adjust the screen scroll back buffer if needed : https://www.baeldung.com/linux/scrollback-buffer-screen-session