Discord is not using IRC its a closed echosystem
On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 5:57 PM Barry <barry(a)barrys-emacs.org> wrote:
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> > On 30 Nov 2022, at 14:19, Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
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> > On Tue, 2022-11-29 at 22:32 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> >> While we're on the topic: all the GNOME mailing lists are moving to
> >> Discourse (similar to HyperKitty but much *much* worse). The ostensible
> >> reasons for this included "better control of spam" and
"Mailman depends
> >> on Python 2", the latter being clearly nonsense as the Fedora lists
run
> >> on Mailman3 - which is why we have this HyperKitty crock in the first
> >> place. (Note that GNOME hosting is provided by Red Hat, so go figure.)
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> > My experience with using Discourse is as a phone app. It's reminiscent
> > of IRC (live chat via text, group voice chat, file sending). As I
> > recall, it has origins in the gaming fraternity, one of those group
> > VOIP things used alongside their networked games.
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> The irc app is discord, not discourse, and yes its big in gamer circles.
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> Barry
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> > Live stuff suits some people. I can see its value in allowing
> > diagnosing an issue in real time. But that's dependent on responders
> > being there at the same time. And there can be too much noise going
> > on. I dabbled with IRC decades ago, but left it and never returned.
> > Spending all night chatting with strangers about whatever was just
> > eating up my spare time.
> >
> > Email is good for people spread across multiple timezones, who can wait
> > for more than one response. Who'd like to post the "argh, I need
help"
> > post as they give up on an issue and would like to tackle it tomorrow.
> > It's good for people who have some spare time to read through the days
> > posts, and respond where they can. It's far less demanding on you. I
> > can keep easily tabs on all the things going on in here (and easily
> > find old posts on something), I can't do that with discourse, or web
> > forums, that require clicking all over the place. Not to mention that
> > I have lots of other non-Fedora things I'm interested in.
> >
> > It can have an searchable archive, but any time I've googled for the
> > solution to an issue, it's never returned a Fedora mail archive result
> > for me. I usually get Ubuntu forum results, often useless
> > (inapplicable, or answers from the floundering clueless). Sometimes
> > Reddit (of about a similar quality to the Ubuntu forums).
> >
> > Does this archive exclude google? Even if it didn't, no matter what
> > medium you use, you can still get multiple people asking the same
> > question, because they (we) don't search first. Mind you, though, I
> > keep tabs on all the threads in here while I'm idle, so I've a fair
> > idea if someone else has brought up a subject I've got an interest in.
> > But it tends to be new issues that I see, I haven't noticed the
> > multiple people asking the same question issue that used to plague some
> > other mailing lists I was on many years ago.
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> > NB: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted.
> > I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the list.
> >
> > The following system info data is generated fresh for each post:
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> > uname -rsvp
> > Linux 5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Thu Oct 13
> > 18:58:38 UTC 2022 x86_64
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