Just discovered this, was wishing for an IRC channel myself, Slack does just fine. 
@spf13 Invite please: kartiksinghal at gmail
Could you please add me? My email is tdemachi at gmail dot com
Kindly send me an invite at ( yasoob.khld @ gmail . com )
Real-time communication is nearly always a great option in my book. voxadam[at]gmail
I’m considering setting up https://gitter.im/ for it. What do others think. No registration, just sign in with GitHub.
spf13 discuss@gohugo.io writes:
I’m considering setting up https://gitter.im/ for it. What do others
think. No registration, just sign in with GitHub.
Well, I’ve github account and would probably use it, but considering
that I use regular IRC (mostly @Freenode) and hang on few channels,
having regular IRC channell is preferable option for me, especially
considering one can use specialized IRC client - Hexchat - in my case -
which provides nice notifcations etc. on my GNOME system.
Sincerely,
Gour
It’d be simpler than the current route. Sending a PM to get invited works for low volumes. Won’t scale very well, though.
gour, Slack allows connections via irc.
Invite sent.
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Same, can I ask for invite?
Can I also get an invite? jamie.d.foster at gmail
Done.
One of my colleagues got me a challenge to integrate his online form with Slack. Since Ruby is currently the language I’m most familiar with, I accepted the challenge 
I’m planning to port this in go (to keep up with the theme of the whole app). I wanted to show it now in case anyone thinks this is useful and would like to implement it for the hugo project. Maybe we can have a page somewhere that will accept signups and then auto-add them to our slack group?
Wordpress also has an automated signup process, I’m not sure if they open sourced it or not though. Probably written in PHP though 
We are experimenting with Gitter. It doesn’t require approval. Anyone with a github account can easily join a room.
Join the conversation at https://gitter.im/spf13/hugo
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I looked on IRC first, it is the first place you look for interactively being able to chat with folks. And has been for decades.
Gitter.im has a beta IRC gateway solution, which keeps this kind of thing off the browser and in your IRC client. Slack has an IRC client as well, but with the ‘invite’ mechanism, I would suppose that is a bit of overhead for the project leads.