I often help out at en-help. Often, people who are new at IRC need to be told where to type. I would think this would qualify as "failing hard".
From, Emily On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:45 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > Gendergap@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > >
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