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Right, because IRC (the prior state-of-the-art) is eminently accessible.
by Ar-Curunir 5y ago
Right, because IRC (the prior state-of-the-art) is eminently accessible.
- jraph 5y agoI haven't mentioned IRC, and there are several, more modern, alternatives to IRC. But actually, what is so wrong about IRC? I used to listen a popular webradio which had an IRC channel, people managed to join it no problem, including me as a child. Surely a developer is capable of joining and using IRC with ease? IRC had this interesting property that chat logs were often provided publicly, making them searchable.
- faho 5y ago>But actually, what is so wrong about IRC? 1. IRC doesn't have any form of persistence or history, requiring the user to run a bouncer 2. IRC doesn't have any formatting - this makes it annoying to talk about code My experience with IRC is that I joined a channel, asked the question I wanted, waited for a few hours without a response, and turned my computer off. If anyone answered it after that, I have no way of knowing. I don't regularly use IRC and so I don't run a bouncer. This wasted both my time and the time of people who answered my question after I was gone. In better chat systems, you can e.g. get an email notification if someone replies to you, allowing you to check back later.
- jraph 5y agoI see, fair point. You convinced me.