# Is this site really active? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 15, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897 "2018-06-15T08:47:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2018, 8:47am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/1 "2018-06-15T08:47:09Z")
Is this site really active or some other place is available for chat? ---
**Author:** ![FelicianoTech](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/felicianotech/32/227_2.png) [@FelicianoTech](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/FelicianoTech)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 8:14pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/2 "2018-06-26T20:14:34Z")
Well firstly I wouldn’t call a forum chat. That being said, I’d say by this post having no responses in 11 days says that there’s unfortunately not a lot of activity here. If you want chat, Jekyll has an IRC channel. You can find this and more on their [Help Page](https://jekyllrb.com/help/). ---
**Author:** ![liv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/liv/32/1269_2.png) [@liv](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/liv)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2018, 9:14pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/3 "2018-06-26T21:14:39Z")
I’d say it’s active _enough_, we have people asking questions sometimes and people answering those questions sometimes. Of course nobody here is paid to answer questions, and we’re not monitoring it 24/7, but it’s as good a place to ask Jekyll-related questions as any. ---
**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 4:58am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/4 "2018-06-27T04:58:41Z")
**Gitter or Slack or any other messaging tool** is a good place, but the main problem is that all the conversation is mixed up. We need a better place where the conversation is separated into different threads and it should be more personal. ---
**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:24am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/5 "2018-06-27T05:24:56Z")
Ditto what Olivia says - sure, I saw this post 11 days ago, but my desire is to help people figure out jekyll, and this didn’t really have a jekyll question so I didn’t post anything. I see MM on here all the time answering questions, I try to do the same when I can. I don’t _create_ very many topics as I don’t have very many questions, and I would guess there are multiple other people on here who are the same. If I did have a jekyll question this is the first place I would ask it. That said I do think that other Static Generators are giving Jekyll some pretty stiff competition, Jekyll has its place but I think some of the more advanced users move on to something else eventually. ---
**Author:** ![yashumittal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/yashumittal/32/1260_2.png) [@yashumittal](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/yashumittal)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 5:46am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/6 "2018-06-27T05:46:51Z")
You are right? I think Gatsby is quite trendy right now. ![in_trends_explore_q%3Dgatsby%2Cjekyll](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jekyllrb/original/2X/7/79691e5776a18d2e1d419bd641a48086325eb2cd.png) Hey guys, I have recently [joined on Spectrum](https://spectrum.chat/jekyll) and I have found it quite interesting, why don’t you try? ---
**Author:** ![liv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/liv/32/1269_2.png) [@liv](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/liv)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2018, 7:03pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/is-this-site-really-active/1897/7 "2018-06-27T19:03:39Z")
Jekyll is not Hugo, Gatsby, or anything else, and it’s not trying to be. We’re all open-source projects here, there’s no _war_ between us. If some people move on from Jekyll, that’s fine! I think being a project that’s a stepping stone between very simple stuff and more advanced stuff is awesome.