On Fri, May 21 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote: > Jeff King wrote: >> Of course there's value in coordinating. Everybody _can_ hang out on >> their favorite venues and eventually talk to each other, but it's much >> easier if everybody agrees where to go. :) > > I don't think it works that way. > > I "everybody" agrees to move to Discord, many old-timers won't. Same > with Gitter. And if most people were on IRC, many youngsters wouldn't > come. > > There's a limit to how many chat applications you are willing juggle, > and adding one more just to chat with git developers is something many > people won't do. In the case of IRC though there's many IRC-to-X gateways that allow you to somewhat have your cake and eat it too, e.g. there's one for discord[1]. I haven't tried it, but I use another channel that has an irc-to-Telegram (the app) gateway[2]. It works quite well. Aside from the Freenode v.s. Librechat question I wonder if there'd be interest in having such a thing running for #git or #git-devel. 1. https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc 2. https://github.com/FruitieX/teleirc
