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> who just plain refuse (are unable?) to even see the difference between a chat like slack (or telegram, or mattermost, or or or...) What if they do see the di
by dwc 9y ago
> who just plain refuse (are unable?) to even see the difference between a chat like slack (or telegram, or mattermost, or or or...)
What if they do see the difference and don't see the value in it? This is worth considering.
> where I can post images/videos inline, use proper markup etc
I don't want someone else putting inline videos or markup into my feed. In IRC people post links, most of which I happily ignore at very low cost because they're not important to anything.
- abritinthebay 9y agoIf they don’t see the value but everyone else dies then they are an outlier. That’s absolutely ok, as long as they understand that and that at some point the value is in network effects too
- black_puppydog 9y ago> I don't want someone else putting inline videos or markup into my feed. That is of course your personal choice, no arguing with it. I'm thinking of projects where communicating with/about videos and images is an integral part of the work. Think image processing for example. In that context a message of the kind "Hey, I tried this new method, look what I got as a result [image]" can make tons of sense. If you don't need images, you don't have to use them. If the person on the other end of the chat insists on sending them anyway, why are you talking to them? :P
- toyg 9y agoSo maybe the issue is just that this sort of features should really be enabled client-side. Which you could do fine with an intelligent IRC client.