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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] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IRC is fine, so are mailing lists; I use both, plus various git forges, to contribute to open source projects.

IRC is still going strong on OFTC and Libera.chat

I get that the younger folks like discord, but seriously it's a proprietary mess that locks everything behind a wall and tries to extract payment from each and every user.

[–] xnasero 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you host thelounge using IRC is quite cool. As you get a better experience with backed up messages and stuff.

[–] lorefnon 2 points 1 year ago

Lounge looks pretty cool