<div dir="ltr">Does this really have to be all or nothing? It's just chat, something I consider fairly ephemeral anyway. I'd much rather people talk about Haskell as much as possible, even if that comes at the expensive of having one blessed channel/medium.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:02 AM Alexander Kjeldaas <<a href="mailto:alexander.kjeldaas@gmail.com">alexander.kjeldaas@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">I agree.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div>While I've used IRC for almost 20 years, it just isn't as usable as the newer tools.<br class="gmail_msg">- IRC assumes a permanently connected computer, which again requires a VPS as indirection. I do use that, but there are clear usability issues here.<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">- IRC further assumes that I will be on one device only. Again I solve this by jumping through a VPS. It's a design flow though.<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">- Slack is great, but enterprise (login ++).<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">- Gitter is just "yet another tool", might be the best thing, but it just hasn't got the mindshare yet.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div>A technical solution where freenode's #haskell is bridged to one of the new fancy web UIs, where history is kept, and multiple devices can be used, would be great. I'm not sure if anyone is doing that though.<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Alexander</div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Geraldus <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:heraldhoi@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">heraldhoi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">From my point of view all mentioned solutions aren't perfect:<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">+ with IRC I always lose the history, also, my client (Lingo on OS X) always disconnects and I can lose answers really easy too<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">+ I tried Slack in the past, and found no advantages or something that buys me<br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">+ Gitter is quite buggy for now</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">However my personal preference is Gitter, because it give history, edit abilities and nice code appearance for free (though I wish to see light theme for code highlighter as GitHub provides by default).</div></div>
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