Re^2: Dancer2 developers on PerlMonks?

IRC sucks, always has.

No, not always has. It was good and useful at some point.

But, yes, IMHO, it sucks today. To start with, it is obsolete technology. IRC was invented almost 30 years ago, this is very very old in the context of fast-moving technologies on the net. And it is backward and time-consuming. I don't understand why so many people in the Perl community are still wanting to use it. Just as an example, threaded forums or chats are much better, people know easily who is answering whom or what, you can answer a post from a couple of days ago and make sense, and so on. As for the specifics of the Dancer IRC channel, I just don't know.

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Re^3: Dancer2 developers on PerlMonks? by 1nickt (Canon) on Dec 12, 2017 at 23:44 UTC
Well, I don't remember any time where IRC was not a flame fest, but anyway you are right that it's a worthless medium for collaboration and for offering support. The problem is that the Dancer project, like many in the Perl world, as you say, continue to state that the IRC channel is the "official" support method. The Dancer channel is largely silent, and when newcomers ask a question there's usually a long period of silence and most often the newb has left when someone acks. On the other hand, as I mentioned in an update, like many projects nowadays, the most activity for Dancer is found around the Github pages for the repo. The way forward always starts with a minimal test.	[reply]
Re^3: Dancer2 developers on PerlMonks? by tinita (Parson) on Dec 13, 2017 at 16:21 UTC
And it is backward and time-consuming. I don't understand why so many people in the Perl community are still wanting to use it. IRC has helped me for a lot of projects where I collaborate, and where I had questions. I admit it's only really useful if you are logged in permanently. I use it in a tmux session on one of my servers. I also admit that platforms like slack have advantages (easier sharing of files, showing online status), but also disadvantages. I can use IRC in textmode, the status line is always visible and it will simply highlight the "windows" that need my attention. No pop-ups required. I can do everything with my keyboard in one terminal window with currently 30 channels. Browser apps have improved, but I still need to use the mouse a lot.	[reply]