Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision

Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by cjbprime on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:46PM (#21837254)

I wouldn't describe Zulip as coming from the IRC tradition -- it was built by MIT students as an improvement on MIT's Zephyr. There's a split between line-at-a-time messaging like IRC or Slack, and paragraphs-at-a-time messaging with per-message channels like Zephyr, Gale, and now Zulip.

I really miss the paragraphs style.

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by pmoriarty on Thursday December 19, 2019 @02:05PM (#21838096)

Wait, why can't you type a paragraph at a time in IRC?

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by cjbprime on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:54PM (#21839156)

I said "paragraphs-at-a-time", not "paragraph-at-a-time". You can't type paragraphs at a time on IRC because a single message can't contain newlines.

But even then, paragraph-at-a-time is hard on IRC because there's a max line length that's surprisingly short (and usually just truncates the rest of your message once you exceed it!), and just because you'd stand out as being the person writing much more than everyone else and being slow to reply. IRC simply isn't a medium designed for carefully considered thought like that.

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by jordigh on Thursday December 19, 2019 @04:46PM (#21839659)

> a medium designed for carefully considered thought like that.

"Sorry this is so long. I didn't have time to make it shorter."

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Re:Synchronous Messaging at Mozilla: The Decision by dsypa on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:24PM (#21838863)

You can type a paragraph if it is not too long, but you can't write several paragraphs.

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