On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 22:11 -0800, Sriram Ramkrishna wrote: > > > > I have a hard time though thinking it is a superior chat system > > compared to IRC. Mostly because, we have bots, we have just added > > some new IRC services. Plus some of us run irc under screen, giving > > us 24/7 access to chat so we don't miss conversations. > > > > > > I think XMPP has a place, but chatting isn't one of them. > > I wouldn't hold up IRC as a shining example of, well, anything. > We use it because we've always used it, since before some smart > folks came along and designed a protocol that isn't awful. And > we'll keep using it as long as nobody makes an effort not to. > > True enough, I don't find IRC the pinnacle. But from my limited use of MUC, I didn't see anything totally awesome about MUC that had an edge over IRC. > Honestly, I think we already use less IRC. A lot of people are > doing stuff over Google hangouts these days. It would be nice if > we could make something like that work with open standards and > free software. I don't think IRC is the right starting point. > > Sure.. it's not a good fit for a free software project though since it isn't free software. In fact, I would say it clearly indicates a gap in our platform that we don't have something similar. > None of the IRC benefits you mentioned are exclusive to IRC. You > can have Jabber bots. There are command-line Jabber clients, so > you can run it under screen. Plus, Jabber MUCs can actually send > history to connecting clients, so you can see what just happened > even if you didn't have the foresight to geek out your chat. > > I don't mind being wrong, I can be convinced to use something else as long as it has a similar feature set. I just don't think we need two chat systems. If we can do the same with MUC, then so be it. sri > -- > Shaun > > >
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