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What do y'all think about mailing lists and IRC as sole communication channels? (self.programming)

submitted 1 year ago by onlinepersona to c/programming

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Say you want to contribute to a project and find out the only way to do so is by discussing the issue on IRC or the mailing list, then submitting the patch per email.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m sad the world moved past IRC. It was always chock full of tech geniuses and underground nerd shit. The normies can have discord

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m still amazed that people consider proprietary app Discord the successor to IRC

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I’m surprised discord is so commonly used with such a horribly unintuitive UX. I can’t recall all my problems with it, but I remember absolutely hating using it at first, as a person with early adopter tendencies.

[–] snowe 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

guess I'm a normie then. I'd much rather be using discord than IRC. I can log in on any device using a QR code, I get message history in every server, I can tag people properly. I can use inline gifs, videos, thumbnails, etc. on every client. I can actually search shit. Yeah it's proprietary, but it's still better to have teamspeak level voice chat (seriously, nothing has been as ~~discord~~ good at actual voice chat since teamspeak) alongside your chats and dms rather than have them be literally 15 different apps depending on your platform.