On 28 Feb 2013, at 13:14, Bluna Ratimonkey <[email protected]> wrote: > Well.. I know at least one community called "@^&$+=?" which has a few people > hanging around in the channel for years but doesn't actually do anything > productive while the actual productive community members are rarely join the > IRC, IMHO. And yes, my first thought was that this guys must be crazy to > choose SILC but after spending some times in there it changed my opinion.
I don't think that's specifically to do with the chat technology. The FreeBSD IRC channels are usually also interesting and useful. The other project that you mention (on freenode, if I decrypted correctly) has an IRC channel full of trolls and idlers and very few (if any) of the active devs. If they'd used SILC, then they'd probably have had no users at all in the channel. The requirement is a willingness of the active developers to use a particular technology and the ability of everyone else to use it. SILC passed the first for us, but failed the second. I think IRC on EFNet should pass both. David -- Sent from my Cray X1 _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
