How do you keep in contact with forum people...?

[AndreiRS]

I mean, last year my pc motherboard died, so did my existence on the internet... Only now I managed to get a new mb (old model). But in this time I used to talk to some friends I met on a tool forum from my country. Then when I came back here and at 4hv, I noticed people don't seem to talk outside the forums, while around here we use the forums for more technical stuff and phone chat for daily bla bla. Just curious on how that works where you live. I think it has more to do with local culture, privacy... Anyway, good to see people still here. 

[Mads Barnkob]

I try to check in daily on the IRC channel that was made for 4hv, here you can find a few of the old users from there and new from HVF: https://highvoltageforum.net/index.php?action=chat

Facebook has a few high voltage and Tesla coil groups aswell and I have many coilers added as friends on facebook aswell.

I email with some people, talk on messenger with others, but generally its never on the phone as we all live in different countries/time zones etc.