That proposal could be considered in the long term, but right now we have plenty of people who seek and get help on IRC, and we can make incremental improvements to their experience faster than we can build a new tool from scratch. Few newbies fail hard at IRC. The basics are similar to texting and private instant messaging software. Let's improve the newbie user experience.
Pine On Aug 11, 2014 1:48 PM, "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Newbies are going to fail hard at IRC. Pretty much all of the questions Seb > poses for a built-in newbie chat still exist with a built-in Freenode > interface, with the addition of a complicated and often difficult (not to > mention culturally... unique) environment. Much better to think along the > lines of the Teahouse, but live. You can jump into a chat queue, and people > who want to help chat with you, and you can close the chat whenever you > want, and you can't contact people outside of the queue using chat. > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > wikitec...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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