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[Ben Spencer]

Hello Tomas,

I agree usability does matter. 

On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer at me.com> wrote:

Hello Tomas,

I agree usability does matter. 

On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:51 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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