<html><body><div><meta charset="utf-8"><div style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">Hello Tomas,</div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><br></div><div style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" data-mce-style="color: #000000; font-family: SFNSText, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 300; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">I agree usability does matter. </div></div><div><br>On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer@me.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div>Hello Tomas,</div><div><br></div><div>I agree usability does matter. </div><div><br>On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Tomas Carnecky <tomas.carnecky@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div class="msg-quote"><div dir="ltr">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...</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 5:41 PM William Yager <<a href="mailto:will.yager@gmail.com" data-mce-href="mailto:will.yager@gmail.com">will.yager@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">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.<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">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.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Will</div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Ben Spencer <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:ben.richard.spencer@me.com" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-href="mailto:ben.richard.spencer@me.com">ben.richard.spencer@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;" data-mce-style="margin: 0 0 0 .8ex; border-left: 1px #ccc solid; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_msg"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.357143em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857em; color: #4d5763; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0.357143em 0px 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.42857em; color: #4d5763; font-family: verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; background-color: #ffffff;">Why Gitter you might ask? </p></div></blockquote></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><br></div>_______________________________________________<br class="gmail_msg"> Haskell-Cafe mailing list<br class="gmail_msg"> To (un)subscribe, modify options or view archives go to:<br class="gmail_msg"> <a href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe" rel="noreferrer" class="gmail_msg" data-mce-href="http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe">http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe</a><br class="gmail_msg"> Only members subscribed via the mailman list are allowed to post.</blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>