[Haskell-cafe] Gitter Haskell Community

[Mihai Maruseac]

Problem is not in having different preferences but in splitting the
community even further. That is something we should avoid.

/me goes and investigates if a bot who will duplicate lines in
#irc/slack/gitter to the other 2 channels is a good investment.

On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 9:14 AM, Ben Spencer <ben.richard.spencer at me.com> wrote:
> I think it's important to recognize that users have different tastes and
> needs.
>
> Additionally, Gitter allows you to view the chat channel if you wish. It's
> also something that's publicly viewable and searchable from Gitter explore.
> It doesn't require the odd signup process that Slack has implemented. I can
> actually see my chat history for more than 2 days!
>
> But beyond that if you like Slack and its community then more power to you.
> We can certainly have a difference of opinion and preferences.
>
> -Ben
>
> On Dec 07, 2016, at 12:09 PM, Michael Walker <mike at barrucadu.co.uk> wrote:
>
> 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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Mihai Maruseac (MM)
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