Janine, can you share links to the sites? I'm seriously interested in this idea of a friendlier interface for IRC.
Pine On Aug 2, 2014 8:03 PM, "Janine Starykowicz" jrstark@barntowire.com wrote:
One of the sites I've found them on is more technical, but another is definitely not. The embedded version is very newbie friendly.
Janine
Pine W wrote:
That sounds workable and hopefully friendly.
Pine
On Aug 2, 2014 7:51 PM, "Janine Starykowicz" <jrstark@barntowire.com mailto:jrstark@barntowire.com> wrote:
There are plenty of people using IRC, but many of them don't know it.There are chatroom/IRC hybrids, generally on forum sites. You embed the chat window in a web page, and anyone can join in. Those who want can use any IRC client to get to the same channel, but with more features.
http://www.irchighway.net/ http://mibbit.com/ Janine Sarah Stierch wrote: Exactly. IRC is for the old school and ubergeek. And as Sue hassaid in the past - we're only going to "retain" specific types of people to be long term editors (ubergeeks like us) but, if we can figure out a solution to help out the "average joe/sphine" editor...
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