[Haskell-cafe] Gitter Haskell Community

[Justin Wood]

> 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 <cma at bitemyapp.com>
wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 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 <will.yager at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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 <ben.richard.spencer at me.com
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Why Gitter you might ask?
> >>
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