For that, there's http://fpchat.com/ which is an established Slack
community. The #haskell channel alone has 1,208 people in it right
now.
On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Tomas Carnecky
<tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:Usability matters. It's easier to tell people to open a browser window andpoint them at a URL than tell them to download an IRC chat client and how toconnect to the server and...On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM William Yager <will.yager@gmail.com> wrote:What are the advantages of this over the #haskell IRC on freenode? It'svery active, usually with over 1500 nicks at any given time.I generally prefer IRC to any of these hip web chat solutions because IRCis client-agnostic and very rugged against companies folding or decidingthey don't want to host a project any more. Basically the only way to killan IRC channel is through social attrition, whereas any social value builtup in hosted chat services might disappear overnight.The one major advantage of hosted chats over IRC is that they work betterwith mobile users, but I don't think that's very relevant for haskell dev.WillOn Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer@me.com>wrote:Why Gitter you might ask?_______________________________________________Haskell-Cafe mailing listTo (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to:http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafeOnly members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post._______________________________________________Haskell-Cafe mailing listTo (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to:http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafeOnly members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.
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