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Good luck pretending than "setting-up your own IRC server" is easier than not having to care about such a thing, and that most people really enjoy to have to "c
by jmfayard 11y ago
Good luck pretending than "setting-up your own IRC server" is easier than not having to care about such a thing, and that most people really enjoy to have to "choose from a multitude of servers, services, clients, bots, client scripts, bouncers, and myriad of bots" instead of just going to https://slack.com/downloads https://slack.com/downloads
The article does not even discuss the fact that projects that opened a slack community with a big increase in their audience. Apparently audience is much less important than purity.
- ve55 11y agoYou're correct, I understand why most people don't want that, and thus also why Slack is so hugely popular. I'm primarily thinking about technical people who actually do want this (such as what's referred to in the article, people working on open source projects or who otherwise require things not offered by slack).
- vjeux 11y agoYou underestimate how much effort it is to mantain a service running. I setup a irc logger for React and it would go down every other week, I was pinged at random times by people saying it was down and either needed to drop everything I was doing to fix it or let it be broken for a while. I want to spend my time working on React, not be a sysadmin for the irc bot. I switched to botbot.me and it's been always up and with a much better interface :)
- bitJericho 11y agoServices went down for me sometimes on a private IRC server. I setup a cron to check for failure and start if needed. Took 10 minutes.