How do I prevent people from contacting me via this?
On 6 May 2015 at 03:33, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Legoktm wrote:
On 05/04/2015 08:07 AM, Guillaume Paumier wrote:
- You can now chat with other users https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Conpherence in Phabricator. [1] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392
Uh, why? Where was this actually discussed with more than 4 people? We already have IRC and mailing lists, so why do we need yet another communication system? Are we going to be enabling Phriction next?
Please turn it off.
I briefly played around with Conpherence yesterday. I'm not sure I'd call it chat software and I'm not sure it's intended as such. It felt like forum software, from what I can tell.
Initial pain points/oddities:
- the conversations/threads don't auto-refresh
- every message triggers a separate e-mail notification by default
- messages can include fancier formatting, but it wasn't apparent how to preview a message before sending
I'm inclined to agree that e-mail and IRC (and Phabricator's Maniphest with its quoting functionality and the wikis and the mailing lists and...) are sufficient for Wikimedia development. That said, I can understand the view of this being just another tool and, y'know, "if you don't like it, don't use it" and all that. I've re-opened the discussion at https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T91392 as I think whether we enable Conpherence needs further thought and consideration.
MZMcBride
P.S. I'm also lightly reminded of Zawinski's law about every program expanding in size until it includes e-mail. :-)
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