Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by jamiek88 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:28AM (#18725672)

setting up, just getting started with IRC for a non-tech person is basically way too hard bordering on impossible from their perspective.

We can talk about all the other issues around persistence and UX but just getting started is something beyond the vast majority of computer users.

It’s really hard for us to remember and empathize with this.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by weberc2 on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:34AM (#18725732)

I’m a tech person and I struggle. It’s a chat app; shouldn’t be so complex.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by pera on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:45AM (#18726447)

Too hard? I installed mIRC on my own at age ~12 in the late 90s and I don't remember having any issues, the only thing you had to do was to type a nickname and choose a server. Nowadays it's even more simpler since you don't even need to install a client (qwebirc, kiwiirc, etc.).

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by wpietri on Thursday December 20, 2018 @06:02PM (#18730034)

Sure. 12-year-olds who go on to be software developers can install it. That says nothing about the user experience of the bottom quartile of users in terms of technical aptitude.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by def_true_false on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:15PM (#18727435)

I'm not sure why people keep saying this. If all you want is a web client, it doesn't get much easier than qwebirc: https://webchat.freenode.net/

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by rhizome on Thursday December 20, 2018 @08:05PM (#18730696)

I'd agree that it's possible there are some discoverability issues, but i don't see where '/server irc.(efnet|freenode|etc.)' is bordering on impossible.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by ciupicri on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:37AM (#18726353)

But developers are not non-tech persons, they're techies.

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