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You convinced me of the opposite the moment you suggested the user leave the browser to get sane defaults from an IRC-client. Not-installing-nor-configuring-an

You convinced me of the opposite the moment you suggested the user leave the browser to get sane defaults from an IRC-client. Not-installing-nor-configuring-anything is such a vastly superior UX that we need not unlock any more levels of discussion. Discord's web app saves easily accessible history remotely[1] and has sane code-formatting defaults. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I haven't seen that for the default configuration of an IRC client on any distro. For OP's use case of "just let me communicate with the devs for a bit, please" that's the ball game as far as UX is concerned. [1] You can apparently use Discord without saving the history. But the user has to explicitly go off the path that the interface provides in order to do that.

PaulDavisThe1st 7y ago
>Not-installing-nor-configuring-anything is such a vastly superior UX that we need not unlock any more levels of discussion. No doubt this is why Slack makes desktop and mobile app versions of its service, rather than rely on the browser. I'll give them credit - the browser is an option at least. Yes, IRC has no code-formatting defaults because the culture of IRC is that you do not post code to a public channel. Would it be useful to sometimes paste directly into a private channel and not lose formatting? Sure, but compared to the formatting and highlighting options of pastebin and the like, it's not really a hardship and may even be a benefit. I use Discord, but I live and work inside IRC. Discord feels like a candy-filled store compared to IRC. They both have their uses, but I am fairly certain that our IRC channel (both the public and private ones) would be less useful and accessible if we moved them to Discord.