The pro and cons of web-chat, and some technical options are collated at: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Live_Chat_System (especially the 2nd-to-last section, for "Why not IRC?") IRC makes followup discussion, or time-delayed discussion, too difficult, if the user doesn't use their identical username, and state their home-wiki. Also, it shows IPs if users don't obtain a cloak first.
However, just for informational purposes, here are links for easy comparison: https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/test http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#test ( the default client uses http://www.qwebirc.org/ ) HTH, Quiddity On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > That proposal could be considered in the long term, but right now we have > plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make incremental > improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new tool from > scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to texting > and private instant messaging software. Let's improve the newbie user > experience. > > Pine > On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Nathan" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the questions >> Seb >> poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode >> interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not to >> mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along the >> lines of the Teahouse, but live. You can jump into a chat queue, and >> people >> who want to help chat with you, and you can close the chat whenever you >> want, and you can't contact people outside of the queue using chat. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikitech-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > > > _______________________________________________ > EE mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/ee > >
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