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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh it's just an over complicated pile of low quality stuff. Still substantially behind XMPP, which was a fine solution. Somehow still behind IRCv3 in terms of raw usability and apps too. IRCv3 is a new spec that made a lot of improvements

I investigated all three in depth and decided IRCv3 is what I want to use for my server / apps. I even run a public web client that acts like Discord. IRC has the bigger communities still

If you really care about encryption, maybe there's a reason you'd do something different, but I just want private chat servers with good UX