I've been involved in the movement for ~7 years, took one look at IRC and walked very quickly the other way, having used it 15+ years ago. I'm all for retro, but that was taking it too far. Relying on a tool that has been been haemorrhaging users for years, and golden years are seen as around 20 years ago, seems less than ideal.
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 22:37, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
Then, they're welcome to pop on in any time. If they choose not to, well, no one can make them. Anyone is able to use those tools.
Todd
On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 3:32 PM Guillaume Paumier gpaumier@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
Le mer. 19 févr. 2020 à 10:31, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com a
écrit :
I don't think anyone had bad intentions. It was just redundant.
Real time communication is on IRC. Asynchronous communication is either
on
the wiki, preferably, or on the mailing list.
Quit trying to make us TwitFaceTube. The tools we already have work
just
fine.
That perspective suffers from a lack of empathy. "The tools we already have" may work for the limited sample of the population who are currently using them. Assuming that that sample is representative is flawed and is
a
classic example of survivorship bias. If we have learned anything from
the
Space experiment and from years of strategy discussions, it is that the tools we currently have do not, in fact, work just fine for a large
number
of people, whose voices are missing from our discussions and content.
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