Re: [Haskell-cafe] Gitter Haskell Community

Tomas Carnecky writes:

Usability matters. It's easier to tell people to open a browser window and point them at a URL than tell them to download an IRC chat client and how to connect to the server and...

As someone relying on Accessibility on a daily basis, I notice that this myth does not apply to me. As a blind user, working with a browser-based chat system is definitely less accessible then a native local client solution using something established and well-tested like IRC. Actually, I am afraid most of you have absolutely no idea how bad web accessibility has become in the modern days of realtime web-based applications. The digital divide is about to hit really hard with the next wave of new technology hype. HTML + JavaScript was never designed to be an application development platform, and forcing it to be one does not make the job for assistive technology providers easier, in fact, it makes it virtually impossible.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM William Yager wrote:

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What are the advantages of this over the #haskell IRC on freenode? It's very active, usually with over 1500 nicks at any given time.

I generally prefer IRC to any of these hip web chat solutions because IRC is client-agnostic and very rugged against companies folding or deciding they don't want to host a project any more. Basically the only way to kill an IRC channel is through social attrition, whereas any social value built up in hosted chat services might disappear overnight.

The one major advantage of hosted chats over IRC is that they work better with mobile users, but I don't think that's very relevant for haskell dev.

Will

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ben Spencer wrote:

Why Gitter you might ask?

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