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I wouldn't describe Zulip as coming from the IRC tradition -- it was built by MIT students as an improvement on MIT's Zephyr. There's a split between line-at-a
by cjbprime 7y ago
I wouldn't describe Zulip as coming from the IRC tradition -- it was built by MIT students as an improvement on MIT's Zephyr. There's a split between line-at-a-time messaging like IRC or Slack, and paragraphs-at-a-time messaging with per-message channels like Zephyr, Gale, and now Zulip.
I really miss the paragraphs style.
- pmoriarty 7y agoWait, why can't you type a paragraph at a time in IRC?
- dsypa 7y agoYou can type a paragraph if it is not too long, but you can't write several paragraphs.
- cjbprime 7y agoI said "paragraphs-at-a-time", not "paragraph-at-a-time". You can't type paragraphs at a time on IRC because a single message can't contain newlines. But even then, paragraph-at-a-time is hard on IRC because there's a max line length that's surprisingly short (and usually just truncates the rest of your message once you exceed it!), and just because you'd stand out as being the person writing much more than everyone else and being slow to reply. IRC simply isn't a medium designed for carefully considered thought like that.
- jordigh 7y ago> a medium designed for carefully considered thought like that. "Sorry this is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter."