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Not trying to be negative, but I have to ask: was there something wrong with the IRC channel?

by DanielBMarkham 12y ago

arethuza 12y ago
I'm clearly showing my ignorance - but what IRC channel?
- thefox 12y ago
  freenode.net #startups Also see the old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191
  - DanielBMarkham 12y ago
    Also worth noting, there have been at least three "let's chat" apps written specifically for the HN community. I'm not saying we don't need another one, but when you have a free channel, then several other apps, you gotta wonder what the compelling reason for this one is.
- deleted 12y ago
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_cbdev 12y ago
Exactly what I thought. The technical "difficulty" of joining an IRC Channel through the ancient incantations of actually using a text-based interface instead of some fancy Webapp is enough of a deterrent to serve as basic divider between the people you want to have in a channel and the rest. The barrier of entry to this thing seems to be the goodwill of "someone".
- emilsedgh 12y ago
  Not sure how I feel about this. This is 'HackerNews'. joining an IRC channel is definitely something this crowd knows how to do. Or at least, it's supposed to :)
  - boomlinde 12y ago
    > This is 'HackerNews' Which is exactly the intended user base of this app. The "crowd" in this case is community non-members.
  - _cbdev 12y ago
    In my experience, there's an abundance of people just barely able to fire up their favorite IDE and hack something together in some kind of rapid prototyping web 2.7 thingamajig they don't even understand fully, preferrably using the latest JS(-based) framework and a (seemingly) random combination of currently hip "stack" technologies and packing all this on about 5 to 10 'cloud' instances without any knowledge of anything beyond the web. So, while I agree with your 'Or at least, it's supposed to :)', there's an awful lot of people whose claim to 'Hackerdom' is going to some kind of 'Hacker School' or '-Weekend'.

Not trying to be negative, but I have to ask: was there something wrong with the IRC channel?

arethuza 12y ago

I'm clearly showing my ignorance - but what IRC channel?

thefox 12y ago
freenode.net #startups Also see the old discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=85191
- DanielBMarkham 12y ago
  Also worth noting, there have been at least three "let's chat" apps written specifically for the HN community. I'm not saying we don't need another one, but when you have a free channel, then several other apps, you gotta wonder what the compelling reason for this one is.
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_cbdev 12y ago

Exactly what I thought. The technical "difficulty" of joining an IRC Channel through the ancient incantations of actually using a text-based interface instead of some fancy Webapp is enough of a deterrent to serve as basic divider between the people you want to have in a channel and the rest. The barrier of entry to this thing seems to be the goodwill of "someone".

emilsedgh 12y ago
Not sure how I feel about this. This is 'HackerNews'. joining an IRC channel is definitely something this crowd knows how to do. Or at least, it's supposed to :)
- boomlinde 12y ago
  > This is 'HackerNews' Which is exactly the intended user base of this app. The "crowd" in this case is community non-members.
- _cbdev 12y ago
  In my experience, there's an abundance of people just barely able to fire up their favorite IDE and hack something together in some kind of rapid prototyping web 2.7 thingamajig they don't even understand fully, preferrably using the latest JS(-based) framework and a (seemingly) random combination of currently hip "stack" technologies and packing all this on about 5 to 10 'cloud' instances without any knowledge of anything beyond the web. So, while I agree with your 'Or at least, it's supposed to :)', there's an awful lot of people whose claim to 'Hackerdom' is going to some kind of 'Hacker School' or '-Weekend'.