Hi Alex, Yes I have used IRC before and I still don't really like it. I have tried and used multiple IRC chat apps on my Android device and none of them worked stably. I completely understand your reasons of not using other platforms and I had read the few reasons mentioned in the docs.
As per suggestions, I will keep trying to learn more about IRC and get more familiar with it. Thanks for your response. Prashant Sengar On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, 11:37 PM Alex Perez <ape...@alexperez.com> wrote: > Prashant, > > We also offer our own Sugar Labs specific IRC chat gateway, at > http://chat.sugarlabs.org:9090/ > > I'd like to understand more fully why you believe IRC is hard for you to > use. Is it hard because you've never used it before? Is it hard because you > have no familiarity with it? IRC can absolutely be used on mobile devices, > and this basic misunderstanding shows me that you're not particularly > familiar with some basic IRC facts, nor have you bothered to open your > mobile phone up, go to the app store, and type "IRC" in to the search > field. Which mobile platform are you using? Android? iOS? If you tell us, > we can recommend some clients for you. > > The issue of loss-of-state when you're disconnected from IRC is a known > problem for 25+ years, and many ways to address it have been developed over > that period of time. There are IRC bouncers, web-based IRC clients, and > all sorts of other solutions to these problems, if you can be bothered to > search for them, instead of assuming that no solution exists, which is > sorta what seems to have happened here. > > There are several reasons why we don't use Slack, Discord, or other > proprietary messaging systems, which I'm not going to get into the details > of here, but since they are corporate owned-and-operated pieces of > infrastructure, they may or may not exist in the future. > > The primary problem with using Gitter is that it requires you to have a > GitHub account, and has no other authentication mechanism. Developers are > not the only people we care about, and IRC is accessible to all, and is > fundamentally democratic. > > Prashant Sengar <prashantseng...@gmail.com> > March 4, 2020 at 6:33 AM > Hi, > > I am sure this request must have been raised earlier as well. I wanted to > ask if Sugar could create a communication channel on another platform such > as a discord server, Slack or Telegram instead of IRC to make communication > easier. > > The reason why others will be a better option: > 1. The chats will be accessible even if I am offline for a while, unlike > IRC where I cannot see any earlier data. > 2. IRC cannot be used on mobile devices, so it creates a barrier in > communication. On the other hand, the other chat applications are available > on all platforms for everyone to use. > > I would like to request the team to please consider this request. If such > request has been made earlier and denied due to some reasons, then I would > like to know them so that I can understand the reasons and work accordingly. > > Regards. > Prashant Sengar > > > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > >
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