So there was a software project that I wanted to ask some questions about on their IRC.
So I clicked a link on their GitHub page for some online IRC client.
I had a conversation it was great. Except for the part where I wanted to paste some code and it didn't format. And then I was recommended to use pastebin and paste a link.
Then I went away for a bit. Came back later and my computer had rebooted while in standby. (It's an old laptop and is a bit flaky with resume from standby)
I returned and click the link for the IRC chat. And I couldn't see the previous messages.
And they had a link to a log but it wasn't working.
And apparently the server doesn't log by default.
Look, no offence to IRC. But this is some crazy bullshit.
Like Discord, Slack, Gitter, Teams. Whatever. Isn't going have this issue.
At the end of the day people want to communicate and get their stuff done.
For a free software project, sure, using opensource tools is a great idea.
But sometimes faffing around with none core things just wastes everyone's time. Especially with they could instead be working on features and bug fixes.
So I clicked a link on their GitHub page for some online IRC client.
I had a conversation it was great. Except for the part where I wanted to paste some code and it didn't format. And then I was recommended to use pastebin and paste a link.
Then I went away for a bit. Came back later and my computer had rebooted while in standby. (It's an old laptop and is a bit flaky with resume from standby)
I returned and click the link for the IRC chat. And I couldn't see the previous messages.
And they had a link to a log but it wasn't working.
And apparently the server doesn't log by default.
Look, no offence to IRC. But this is some crazy bullshit.
Like Discord, Slack, Gitter, Teams. Whatever. Isn't going have this issue.
At the end of the day people want to communicate and get their stuff done.
For a free software project, sure, using opensource tools is a great idea.
But sometimes faffing around with none core things just wastes everyone's time. Especially with they could instead be working on features and bug fixes.