Since you didn't specify if you want a review , a warning , a nostalgia post , or a question , I have created three common Reddit-style formats. Choose the one that fits your intent. Title: Does anyone else miss the old Codec events in Kyiv? (codec.kiev.ua)
Also, side question: Are the organizers still running any events under a new name? I moved to Kyiv last year and everyone tells me "Oh, Codec was the place to go," but nobody knows what happened after 2022. (In response to someone asking "What is the best IT community in Ukraine?") codec.kiev.ua reddit
I know the site was a community-driven IT portal based in Kyiv. Does anyone have a local backup or a Wayback Machine link that actually works for their old threads? Or is the domain completely dead now? Since you didn't specify if you want a
I was cleaning out my old hard drive and found some photos from Codec conferences back in 2018-2019. For those who don't know, codec.kiev.ua was basically the hub for developers, sysadmins, and IT geeks in Kyiv. (codec
Looks like the domain is still up but the event calendar has been dead since 2022. Does anyone know if the community moved to a Telegram channel or Discord? I miss the chaotic energy of showing up to a random office on Podil and listening to a guy rant about microservices for 2 hours.
It was purely grassroots. No corporate sponsorship filters. You'd get senior engineers from Rozetka, MacPaw, or Grammarly giving raw, unfiltered talks. Their job board was surprisingly good for 2015-2019.