Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
by snazz on Saturday April 27, 2019 @10:50AM
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I feel like search engine indexing is a feature that should be covered by mailing lists or a forum, not chat. I don’t think that finding a years-old chat log provides nearly as much useful context for solving an issue as longer-form communication.
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Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
by TheSwordsman on Saturday April 27, 2019 @12:45PM
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If the full conversation is retained what's the functional difference?
Re:Mozilla is giving up on their IRC server
by snazz on Saturday April 27, 2019 @01:16PM
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From what I’ve seen (with grains of salt and whatnot):
Chat is an inherently transient medium. Being a participant in the conversation can be important and you can’t really reference a conversation you had on May 6th 2007 and expect to have people willing to continue it with you. On the other hand, you can resurrect an email or forum thread if you weren’t there in the first place and expect that it will continue to be replied to.