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| 16:38 |
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pdurbin |
Hmm. So I tweeted this: Philip Durbin on Twitter: "@vmbrasseur I just watched your "Cutting Some Slack: Decoding IRC" talk at https://archive.org/details/seagl2016-irc and really enjoyed it. Thanks!" - https://twitter.com/philipdurbin/status/833349336679510018 |
| 16:38 |
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pdurbin |
And right away I just got this reply: VM Brasseur on Twitter: "@philipdurbin You're very welcome! Do you have suggestions for how I can make it better?" - https://twitter.com/vmbrasseur/status/833350515786280960 |
| 16:39 |
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pdurbin |
So I guess I should write down some suggestions while they're still top of mind. |
| 16:39 |
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pdurbin |
First, a bit too many f bombs for my taste. :) |
| 16:41 |
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pdurbin |
Second, I completely understand why she chose to emphasize early on the need to register your nick... slide 26 of https://ia801905.us.archive.org/27/items/seagl2016-irc/seagl2016-irc.pdf |
| 16:43 |
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pdurbin |
... but I think this may bog people down a bit. Then she has to explain how to identify with nickserv. I think of registering your nick as an advanced topic. |
| 16:44 |
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pdurbin |
My boss has been using IRC successfully for months and only recently did I encourage him to register his nick so that he can change the topic if he wants to: http://irclog.iq.harvard.edu/dataverse/2017-02-06#i_48290 |
| 16:45 |
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pdurbin |
I mean, all this stuff should certainly be covered, but I would defer it until later in the talk. |
| 16:46 |
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pdurbin |
I like how she emphasized that the culture of IRC differs per channel. |
| 16:48 |
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pdurbin |
Oh, slide 11 about the popularity of freenode was interesting. I guess it peaked around 2014 or so? I thought it was still on the upswing, but I guess my information was stale. I'm thinking of http://royal.pingdom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/irc.003.jpg from http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/24/irc-is-dead-long-live-irc/ |
| 16:53 |
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pdurbin |
Here, I just uploaded the chart she's looking at. http://i.imgur.com/foRWi71.png is what you see today at http://irc.netsplit.de/tmp/networks/stats-freenode-history-uc.png from "Complete measured history" at http://irc.netsplit.de/networks/statistics.php?net=freenode |
| 16:53 |
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pdurbin |
And at the end she says she's never heard of any group moving from Slack to IRC. |
| 16:54 |
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pdurbin |
I'm glad she mentions logging. I maintain a list of IRC logging services at http://wiki.greptilian.com/irc/logging |
| 16:55 |
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pdurbin |
(And logging is the reason why I like Gitter.) |
| 16:56 |
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pdurbin |
I'm a big believer in this post: https://blog.codinghorror.com/maximizing-the-value-of-your-keystrokes/ |
| 16:57 |
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pdurbin |
Anyway, overall the talk was a great introduction to IRC. There's even a text version of her slides: https://archive.org/stream/seagl2016-irc/seagl2016-irc_djvu.txt |
| 17:02 |
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pdurbin |
Ok, I linked her back here: Philip Durbin on Twitter: "@vmbrasseur it's a great talk, but here are some nitpicks and other thoughts: http://irclog.greptilian.com/openknot/2017-02-19 Jump in #openknot on freenode for more" - https://twitter.com/philipdurbin/status/833360805718540288 |
| 17:02 |
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Does anyone else have any thoughts on all of this? |
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