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Installing a bouncer means following technical documentation and having a server free. The first requirement kills the interest of people who want a single app
by chipsy 10y ago
Installing a bouncer means following technical documentation and having a server free. The first requirement kills the interest of people who want a single app install. The second kills the interest of people who want the service free and run by a third party.
These are not enormous barriers but they were enough to put me off of setting up Quassel on a VPS for a few years. Now that I've done it I don't want to go back, of course, and I don't see it as a huge chore to do it again. But that's what's making it "not actionable" - the perception that this is going to end in a nightmare of configuration files and Stack Overflow searches.
- kuschku 10y agoThat's part of the reason why "Quassel as a service" would be a very powerful tool. Currently, though, we have to tell users who want that to use IRCCloud instead - about half of the people come back after the first week of free usage of IRCCloud when it asks you to pay, and start using Quassel from then on.
- mikeash 10y agoI totally understand that installing a bouncer isn't desirable or easy for everybody. But to call it unhelpful and non-actionable is just ridiculous.