On Sat, 15 May 2021 at 03:14, Dong-hee Na <donghee.na@python.org> wrote:
Believe it or not, there are people who are not familiar with the IRC culture. And those people are who enter the opensource culture after the 2010s. That period coincides with the growth of GitHub.
So I'm also a supporter of new communication tools. Here the list below is my consideration.
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Those are all good points. I'll add one more:
- Does it have a good web-client experience? Not everyone wants to run an additional client, so being able to get the full client experience in a browser tab is important.
In case it's not clear, I'd *like* a chat-style community, but I'd prefer it to be a little more "social". We have plenty of "work-related" communication channels, but IMO we don't really have anywhere that's the online equivalent of the workplace "hanging out around the coffee machine" interactions (which are often very productive work-related conversations, but can also be purely social).
Paul