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[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Sandro Santilli <strk at keybit.net> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:44:12PM +0200, Tim Sutton wrote:
>
> > IRC web clients like the free node one really suck - you get
> disconnected all the time and they look like they were made in the 1990’s.
> As an end user I don’t think they provide a good experience. And I also
> don’t think that it really alleviates the ‘yet another proprietary service’
> issue…. all web services are essentially proprietary unless you are running
> them yourselves (which swaps out one issue for another  - we will have to
> curate and maintain it).
>
> Freenode is not run by yourself while still being free software operated.
> Desktop IRC clients that behave better than a web interface do exist,
> and many also integrate in your browser so that an url like:
> irc://irc.freenode.net/qgis is handled correctly.
>
> If something public sucks, directing people to something private won't
> ever help making the public thing better.
>

​True :-)

Regards

Tim​



>
> --strk;
>



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