[Haskell-cafe] Gitter Haskell Community

[Michael Walker]

The Haskell slack seems to be working well, so regardless of the
suitability of slack to open communities or not, I don't really see
the advantage of fragmenting the community even further. Why would
someone pick gitter over the two existing platforms that have
thousands of users? They would be intentionally limiting the help they
can get.

On 7 December 2016 at 17:07, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer at me.com> wrote:
> Hey Chris,
>
> As I've mentioned Slack isn't a good choice for open communities. It's
> really designed for businesses.
>
> On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:52 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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