A lot of places are using Discord now, too. It has an offline, mobile, and web client that are more media based, so there's multiple channels and support for direct files/images uploads. I think it would make it a lot easier to actually have a chat platform you can interact with other people in. The problem being that Roles (how permissions works in discord) would show different users under that role under the active users list, so it would be a lot easier to mention various people important to mediawiki. Some developers may not like that, but from a community interaction standpoint, it'd be pretty cool.
On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 6:50 AM, bawolff <bawolff...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2016 at 7:44 AM, MAYANK JINDAL <mayank.jind...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > The problem is in IRC that it doesn't allow to see previous messages. > > I mean it only shows messages as long as you are logged in. > > > > This isn't really a new problem. Some people use bouncers [1] to solve > this. Other people just don't care about messages when they are not > online (If someone really wants to talk to you asynchronously they can > wait until you are back online, or leave a message on your talk page, > or send you an email, or use MEMOSERV, etc). On most Wikimedia tech > channels you can also find old messages at > http://bots.wmflabs.org/~wm-bot/logs/ > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNC > > -- > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
