On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Noufal Ibrahim KV <nou...@nibrahim.net.in> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15 2015, kracekumar ramaraju wrote: > > > [...] > >> Biggest problem with IRC is to on board new comers. The learning curve is >> steep for normal tech users. >> It only makes life for already acquainted users easier not for new comers. >> It hardly takes 5-15 minutes get new person to get used to slack whereas >> that is not case with IRC.
An anecdote_of_one: a reason Slack or, Scrollback like services are often preferred over IRC/email is because of the asynchronous nature of request-response. For example, you seek some answer and unless you are logged in, the responses will not be available at a later stage (and here if you'd like to come in with IRC bouncers, logging and so forth ...) "Chat" or, "conversations" are being replaced with "messaging". There's a small end-user-experience difference between the two. > Also, countering some of the objections. > - The learning curve is not that steep if you're using a GUI > client. You get a list of servers. Connect to one and then a list of > chatrooms (channels). Join #bangpypers with a click and you're > on. Surely people who code and learn coding can pick up IRC. Once > you stick on for a while, all the idiosyncrasies like the / > commands become normal.[1] "Surely people who "want to participate and contribute" ..." Let's not limit these conversations to only those who want to code. -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay <https://twitter.com/#!/sankarshan> _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers