On Sat, Jun 20, 2020, 16:09 nch via agora-discussion < agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote:
> On 6/20/20 5:07 PM, Reuben Staley wrote: > > Alternatively, we do have an IRC chat which is already an official > > forum. Mayhaps if the Webmastor promoted this service, it could > > encourage us to congregate there to answer new players' questions. > > > > -- > > Trigon > > > > (I haven't figured out my signature on mobile yet.) > > I'm pretty against the IRC tbh. It's less accessible than Discord and if > you're not connected constantly you don't get to see previous messages. > Obviously there's ways around this, but in the modern internet they're > pretty arcane. I use discord daily across multiple devices for great > success. If I was going to advocate for a chat client, it'd be that. > Some part of me despises that so many of my social groups have decided to congregate on a completely proprietary chat system that offers so little customization. At the same time, I do concede that Discord is likely the most accessible chat client out there and that real-time, accessible chat client is a very good way to help people learn the ropes. So here comes the poll part: what does everyone think about a chat client? IRC or Discord? Something open like Matrix? There are lots of options here. What's the call? -- Trigon (still working on the signature, please hold.) >
