Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2020-02-10 Thread Amey Abhyankar
Hello, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 08:43, Tejas Sanap wrote: > > Hey, folks! > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that presented some > interesting perspectives on IRC and similar protocols (Matrix). Interesting talk on IRC

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2020-01-16 Thread Amey Abhyankar
Hello, On Tue, 3 Sep 2019 at 08:43, Tejas Sanap wrote: > > Hey, folks! > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that presented some > interesting perspectives on IRC and similar protocols (Matrix). > >

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-06 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 5:32 PM Tejas Sanap wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 03:33:49PM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019, 15:08 Vishal Rao wrote: > > > > > IRC is kind of "stateless", right? Meaning you have to stay logged in to > > > not miss any messages? If I log

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-05 Thread Vik Tara
On 04/09/2019 10:37, Vishal Rao wrote: > > Hey, folks! > > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that presented some > > interesting perspectives on IRC and similar protocols (Matrix). > > > >

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-05 Thread Tejas Sanap
On Thu, 5 Sep 2019, 10:50 Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे, wrote: > > as their editors, but the students never leave the "INSERT" mode. >> > > Really? 樂 > They use arrow keys and backspace key. -- Tejas Sanap (whereistejas) > ___ plug-mail mailing list

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
> as their editors, but the students never leave the "INSERT" mode. > Really? 樂 ___ plug-mail mailing list plug-mail@plug.org.in http://list.plug.org.in/listinfo/plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Tejas Sanap
On Wed, Sep 04, 2019 at 03:33:49PM +0530, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote: > On Wed, Sep 4, 2019, 15:08 Vishal Rao wrote: > > > IRC is kind of "stateless", right? Meaning you have to stay logged in to > > not miss any messages? If I log out and log back in later on, I miss all > > the messages

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 4:09 PM Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे wrote: > >> Slack and others don't lend themselves well to highly threaded or, long form >> conversations. > > > Has anyone used twist ? https://twist.com/tour (I have not) > One of the feature they keep talking about is threaded

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Mandar Vaze / मंदार वझे
> Slack and others don't lend themselves well to highly threaded or, long > form conversations. > Has anyone used twist ? https://twist.com/tour (I have not) One of the feature they keep talking about is threaded conversations. -Mandar ___ plug-mail

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Sep 4, 2019, 15:08 Vishal Rao wrote: > > > IRC is kind of "stateless", right? Meaning you have to stay logged in to > not miss any messages? If I log out and log back in later on, I miss all > the messages that were posted in the interim? That is the main reason I > stopped using IRC

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Vishal Rao
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 11:37, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay < sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Tejas Sanap wrote: > > > > Hey, folks! > > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-04 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Tejas Sanap wrote: > > Hey, folks! > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that presented some > interesting perspectives on IRC and similar protocols (Matrix). > >

Re: [PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-03 Thread Gaurav Pant
Hi, On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Tejas Sanap wrote: > Hey, folks! > I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's > simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that presented some > interesting perspectives on IRC and similar protocols (Matrix). > >

[PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

2019-09-02 Thread Tejas Sanap
Hey, folks! I use plain IRC and for some reason that I can't explain, love it's simplicity. I ran into a blog post today, that presented some interesting perspectives on IRC and similar protocols (Matrix). https://drewdevault.com/2019/07/01/Absence-of-features-in-IRC.html I guess, IRC is an