[Haskell-cafe] Gitter Haskell Community

[Oliver Charles]

Does this really have to be all or nothing? It's just chat, something I
consider fairly ephemeral anyway. I'd much rather people talk about Haskell
as much as possible, even if that comes at the expensive of having one
blessed channel/medium.

On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 11:02 AM Alexander Kjeldaas <
alexander.kjeldaas at gmail.com> wrote:

> I agree.
>
> While I've used IRC for almost 20 years, it just isn't as usable as the
> newer tools.
> - IRC assumes a permanently connected computer, which again requires a VPS
> as indirection.  I do use that, but there are clear usability issues here.
> - IRC further assumes that I will be on one device only.  Again I solve
> this by jumping through a VPS.  It's a design flow though.
> - Slack is great, but enterprise (login ++).
> - Gitter is just "yet another tool", might be the best thing, but it just
> hasn't got the mindshare yet.
>
>
> A technical solution where freenode's #haskell is bridged to one of the
> new fancy web UIs, where history is kept, and multiple devices can be used,
> would be great.  I'm not sure if anyone is doing that though.
>
> Alexander
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 9:44 AM, Geraldus <heraldhoi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From my point of view all mentioned solutions aren't perfect:
>
> + with IRC I always lose the history, also, my client (Lingo on OS X)
> always disconnects and I can lose answers really easy too
> + I tried Slack in the past, and found no advantages or something that
> buys me
> + Gitter is quite buggy for now
>
> However my personal preference is Gitter, because it give history, edit
> abilities and nice code appearance for free (though I wish to see light
> theme for code highlighter as GitHub provides by default).
>
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