I'm wondering if you folks can recommend (form personal experience) message boards like ours here or chat channels (IRC, Slack, Gitter, Discord etc.) on the topic of web development in general.
Diving back into the topic, I find it's hard to get a handle on good modern practices. I'd love to find people to talk to until I know which concepts and tools to invest time in. So far, I've tried IRC (channels seem dead) and a bit of Discord and Reddit, but with limited success. There's a lot of narrowly focused discussion, but nothing more general for those that have an objective but aren't sure about ways to accomplish it.