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[Justin Wood]

Ben,

Please make sure that you use reply all in the future so that the message
does not go just to me.

For everyone else on the list, this was the message

> That comes back to usability. The client functions but it is not
appealing. Personal taste, I suppose.

I agree that freenode webchat is not the most appealing piece of software,
but there are plenty of web based IRC clients. I'm sure there are some that
are appealing.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:56 AM, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer at me.com>
wrote:

> That comes back to usability. The client functions but it is not
> appealing. Personal taste, I suppose.
>
> On Dec 07, 2016, at 11:55 AM, Justin Wood <justin.k.wood at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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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