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I totally disagree with this article. IRC is incredibly user hostile and for even a technical user is intimidating, complex, and nonobvious. Everyone uses Slack
by why_only_15 7y ago
I totally disagree with this article. IRC is incredibly user hostile and for even a technical user is intimidating, complex, and nonobvious. Everyone uses Slack or Discord, and everyone knows how they work, and the UI is easy. All the features that ddevault says are bad are things that almost everyone else cares about. I, for one, am thankful that more communities are moving off IRC.
- kragen 7y ago> IRC is incredibly user hostile and for even a technical user is intimidating, complex, and nonobvious. When I started using IRC in the 1990s it was full of college freshmen flirting. Most of them were not CS majors or otherwise technically adept. I really don't think it's "intimidating, complex, and nonobvious" in a way that makes people not use it. It just doesn't have images or history, that's all. There are aspects of IRC that are nonobvious, but that's true of any software, including Slack (and, I assume, Discord), and you don't have to know them to start using it.
- lawik 7y agoI agree that IRC doesn't hit the needs and wants of many contributors these days. But I've really found the limits of the Slack free plan a bit rough in the Elixir Slack. And I'd say concerns about being on a proprietary system are valid. It ends up being a mess of pragmatic trade-offs, rather than clear-cut. Slack and friends is overall more approachable.