Also +1 to Guillaume's comment, I couldn't have said better. A
user-friendly forum, like discuss-space is most needed by those, who want
to join the movement, whom the WMF wants to attract, not to those who are
comfortable with the current solutions.
And IRC being an appropriate real-time platform? It's a serious privacy
violation with the IP addresses published. It took me an hour to learn
about cloaks (to hide the IP) and find someone, who would add a cloak...
how many newbies would do that?
IRC also goes against the wiki way with "forgetting" all the history, about
which I always had concerns besides that it's very impractical: long-term
discussions cannot take place or the user has to be always online...
Aron (Demian)
On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 at 23:32, Guillaume Paumier <gpaumier(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
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.
--
Guillaume Paumier
(he/him)