Re: Gitter room for Hydra

2015-09-30 9:29 GMT+02:00 Ruben Verborgh <ruben.verborgh@ugent.be>:

> Personally, I haven't understood the attractiveness of gitter (it's
> probably just me)
> because it requires me to keep a browser tab open all the time.
> With IRC / other protocols, I can choose my client.
>

While I agree an open protocol like IRC give you more choice in clients,
there's still protocol limits with IRC that are hard to overcome by just
choosing a good client. Often, such clients cost money (like IRCCloud) and
are also web based. One problem with IRC is history, for instance.

Having the channel reset on every netsplit or server reboot and having to
be logged in to the channel to accumulate the history, is a major
deficiency that is very hard to solve. Also, not having any support for
markup, makes communication very rudimentary, unengaging and more
time-consuming than rich hypermedia-supporting interfaces like Slack and
Gitter.

Since Hydra already exists on Gitter, the integration provided with
automatic linking and popup views of issues and such make communication
about everything that exists on GitHub much, much easier. No need to click
anything and change application and context to see what something is; a
simple glance within the chat is all that is required. Much more efficient
and user friendly than what is remotely possible in the most advanced IRC
clients.

And back to the choice of clients, Gitter has native clients for all major
platforms:

https://gitter.im/apps

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