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> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [SMW-devel] Modern chat solution as alternative to IRC?
> Local Time: July 27, 2017 1:40 PM
> UTC Time: July 27, 2017 11:40 AM
> From: katkov.ju...@gmail.com
> To: Stephan Gambke <s7ep...@protonmail.com>
> Samuel Lampa <samuel.la...@gmail.com>, Semantic MediaWiki - developers
> <semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
>
> I've no idea how to use IRC, actually, for me it's something like BBS,
> something from the history lesson. Gitter and Slack will at least provide a
> slight possibility of somebody to appear.
>
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> Yury Katkov
>
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:32 PM, Stephan Gambke via Semediawiki-devel
> <semediawiki-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
>>> The SMW IRC chat seems pretty dead these days (albeit not completely).
>>> I tend to pretty often have quick questions I that would be very
>>> suitable for a chat (need a quick answer, or throwing some questions
>>> back and forth, making the mailing list too slow), and find that the IRC
>>> chat is too silent to be of much use (I got some good answers sometimes,
>>> but it is not "reliable").
>>> A lot of projects seem to get very good use of some of the more modern
>>> chat solutions like slack, or gitter (We actually even put up a gitter
>>> chat for SMW at https://gitter.im/SemanticMediaWiki ... ).
>>> What are people"s opinions ... would it be reasonable to push for using
>>> some such solution more (e.g. the gitter chat)?
>>
>> I don't understand how changing the chat system would create more traffic.
>> What you are proposing appears to me to be an attempt of a technical
>> solution for a social problem. IRC my not be the most modern system, but
>> there are web frontends available and I don't think that more people would
>> come to chat about SMW if only the interface was more shiny. And multiplying
>> the communication channels might even be counterproductive as it spreads the
>> people available for conversation over even more places. As you noted, there
>> already is (or was?) an SMW chat on Gitter that apparently did not get
>> traction.
>>
>> Finally, if you don't ask questions because the channel seems so quiet (and
>> other people do the same) then it is probably not a surprise if the channel
>> stays quiet. Or, in other words, start using the existing channel and maybe
>> stay around a while to answer other people's questions, and we might see
>> some more traffic.
>> Just my 2 cents.
>> Stephan
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