Do I really have to sign into IRC to talk about @rustlang? Why do the maintainers want to make it so hard for new devs to participate?
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Replying to @paulcbetts @rustlang
why do you hate openness paul please respond via a GPG-signed post to my usenet I will send you the deets via Signal
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In all serious though, do they not provide a web-irc link? There's a few of them out there....
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Replying to @mletterle @searls and
under Getting Started there's a clickable irc link for rust-beginners that opens a web irc client
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Replying to @paulcbetts @mletterle and
why... use irc? what's your preference for interacting with new users (we have gitter too)
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Replying to @jntrnr @mletterle and
Cause, there are a number of real disadvantages to IRC, and it's hard to imagine anything countering it
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Replying to @paulcbetts @mletterle and
we have both discord and gitter, both of which are heavily used. Curious about IRC disadvantages
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Replying to @jntrnr @mletterle and
...doesn't have a mobile story to speak of, reading transcripts requires an always-on computer
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Replying to @paulcbetts @mletterle and
many of us use irccloud, which basically just turns it into a slack-like experience
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that is ... not true. Their apps are horrible.
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