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So strange they chose Slack and Discord when they had a perfectly fine IRC server (that now is deprecated). Instead of trying to improve IRC (either the protoco
by capableweb 6y ago
So strange they chose Slack and Discord when they had a perfectly fine IRC server (that now is deprecated). Instead of trying to improve IRC (either the protocol or any clients), they chose to go with closed-source hosted platforms. Damn shame.
- SmallPeePeeMan 6y ago> that now is deprecated It is not deprecated. It is completely dead. Try connecting to irc.mozilla.org — you can’t because it’s permanently offline.
- capableweb 6y agoThanks for the correction! Sad to hear. Last time I checked, it was just "advisable" to not use it...
- steveklabnik 6y agoMozilla chose Matrix, not Slack or Discord.
- catalogia 6y agoOn the Mozilla branded website that this discussion is about: "Join us on Slack"
- steveklabnik 6y agoI missed that! That is very strange, given their very public move to Matrix.
- freeopinion 6y agoFrom any Matrix client try searching for Rust. It pops right up for me with #/room/#rust:matrix.org at the top of the list. Now try searching for Firefox. There's a Russian Firefox community on Page 2 of the search results. There are beta and nightly groups on page 3. There's various other noise. But the maintainers have hidden the real Matrix room for Firefox so well, it doesn't even seem to be in the search index. The choice was public. The move has not been public at all.
- cadence- 6y agoIRC was not bringing any money.