Re: [Haskell-cafe] Gitter Haskell Community

Ben, Please make sure that you use reply all in the future so that the message does not go just to me. For everyone else on the list, this was the message

That comes back to usability. The client functions but it is not appealing. Personal taste, I suppose.

I agree that freenode webchat is not the most appealing piece of software, but there are plenty of web based IRC clients. I'm sure there are some that are appealing. On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Spencer wrote:

That comes back to usability. The client functions but it is not appealing. Personal taste, I suppose.

On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Justin Wood wrote:

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It's easier to tell people to open a browser window and point them at a URL

You could always point someone to https://webchat.freenode.net/ or any other web based IRC client.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:51 AM, Christopher Allen wrote:

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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 wrote:

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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...

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

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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 < ben.richard.spencer@me.com> wrote:

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Why Gitter you might ask?

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