Mauricio Tavares wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 07:50:32PM +0200, Andrew Holway wrote:
No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when
compared
to modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost.
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/
I raise your XKCD with another: https://xkcd.com/1810/I idle in #centos and #rhel and it doesn't seem particularly quiet. Maybe it's the hours -- that wouldn't change with Slack or any alternatives.
I never got into IRC. However, I'll hit y'all back: usenet.
mark "the good old days, before there were so many idiots online"