> -----Original Message----- > From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Jason H > Sent: Wednesday, 19 May 2021 17:26 > To: giuseppe.dang...@kdab.com > Cc: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > > Aren't all the kids these days moving to Discord? Slack is inefficient as the > history is rolling unless you pay for more. > > I would worry about moving it under Digia (tQtCo), because I'd expect them to > encumber the access to it(paywall, ads, tracking, etc*). I don't trust them.
TQtC (my employer) already runs all the critical infrastructure for the Qt Project, as well as employing a large part of the developers. But running a chat server ... no, that would require too much trust. > Perhaps the KDE people would operate the Discord infrastructure? > > * Before you laugh, and say that is crazy, consider that the online Qt Docs > search results now have ads: > https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/search-results.html?q=camera shows 4 ads for me. And > I don't know of any other toolkit who serves their documentation with ads. > Take for example mozdev: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=camera shows 0 ads. React, 0 > ads. I figure it's only a matter of time until the actual documentation pages > have ads too. (There may be good reasons for ads, but it's still not a good > look.) It's true that the embedded search on doc.qt.io sometimes shows ads. But it's not the result of evil TQtC making heaps of money with ads. It's just a side-effect of using google for embedded search, and has been like that since years (if not decades) ... We have actually recently started to look into it (again), see https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTWEBSITE-723 if you want to get updates. Can we agree to keep the bashing out of this channel? Thanks Kai _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
