[PLUG] Why folks using IRC are against "cool" and "new" features?

[Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay]

On Wed, Sep 4, 2019, 15:08 Vishal Rao <vishalrao at gmail.com> wrote:

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> IRC is kind of "stateless", right? Meaning you have to stay logged in to
> not miss any messages? If I log out and log back in later on, I miss all
> the messages that were posted in the interim? That is the main reason I
> stopped using IRC and prefer email mailing lists or online forum discussion
> platforms or things like Slack where you can see the messages even if you
> log out and log back in later on.
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There's IRC bouncers which can be configured to enable the kind of
"presence" which you point out. Those are usually additional services -
either to be paid for, or, configured. Email continues to be a resilient
method of communication in projects. Regardless of the fact that every now
and then I read about the imminent demise of email as a medium for
discussion.

Slack and others don't lend themselves well to highly threaded or, long
form conversations. List software such as Mailman are also adding
enhancements which cater to some of the requirements around ease of
conversations.

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