[Distutils] Switch PyPA from IRC to Gitter or similar

[Ian Cordasco]

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 4:58 PM, Glyph <glyph at twistedmatrix.com> wrote:
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> On Jun 10, 2016, at 1:42 PM, Robert Collins <robertc at robertcollins.net>
> wrote:
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> FWIW, I won't be switching to gitter or slack - I find the push
> notifications and always-on experience exhausting. It gets in the way
> of thinking or doing anything useful. I often leave my phone in
> priority-only mode to shut facebook and twitter and such things up for
> hours - or days - at a time.
>
>
> If you read my blog, you'll know this already – I also find Slack tiring in
> exactly this way.  I acknowledge the usability benefits over IRC, but the
> effect of those benefits is mostly just prompting me to spend more time
> staring at chat.  Which is not what I want to be doing.

It's in the service's best interest to constantly grab your attention
because it provides a false sense of dependence. It's why Gitter
spammed me, it's why Slack emails me everytime someone says @channel,
and it's why I've uninstalled Twitter from my phone (so I don't get 2
or more notifications for someone trying to interact with me there).