I've no idea how to use IRC, actually, for me it's something like BBS,
something from the history lesson. Gitter and Slack will at least provide a
slight possibility of somebody to appear.
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Yury Katkov
On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Stephan Gambke via Semediawiki-devel <
semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> The SMW IRC chat seems pretty dead these days (albeit not completely).
>
> I tend to pretty often have quick questions I that would be very
> suitable for a chat (need a quick answer, or throwing some questions
> back and forth, making the mailing list too slow), and find that the IRC
> chat is too silent to be of much use (I got some good answers sometimes,
> but it is not "reliable").
>
> A lot of projects seem to get very good use of some of the more modern
> chat solutions like slack, or gitter (We actually even put up a gitter
> chat for SMW at https://gitter.im/SemanticMediaWiki ... ).
>
> What are people"s opinions ... would it be reasonable to push for using
> some such solution more (e.g. the gitter chat)?
>
>
> I don't understand how changing the chat system would create more traffic.
> What you are proposing appears to me to be an attempt of a technical
> solution for a social problem. IRC my not be the most modern system, but
> there are web frontends available and I don't think that more people would
> come to chat about SMW if only the interface was more shiny. And
> multiplying the communication channels might even be counterproductive as
> it spreads the people available for conversation over even more places. As
> you noted, there already is (or was?) an SMW chat on Gitter that apparently
> did not get traction.
> Finally, if you don't ask questions because the channel seems so quiet
> (and other people do the same) then it is probably not a surprise if the
> channel stays quiet. Or, in other words, start using the existing channel
> and maybe stay around a while to answer other people's questions, and we
> might see some more traffic.
>
> Just my 2 cents.
>
> Stephan
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