Switch IRC links to kiwiirc from mibbit #916
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| Rustaceans maintain a number of friendly, high-traffic [IRC] channels on Mozilla's IRC network, irc.mozilla.org. | |||
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| If you don't know what IRC is, don't worry, it's easy to use: click any link to a particular channel, | |||
| pick a username (you don't need to register, and you don't need a password) and that's it! | |||
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I also added a short blurb about how to actually use IRC. If someone adds a two paragraph tutorial here, I would be very grateful, because I still very much need one!
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Hm, just noticed #701 which I've actually ❤️ a while back, but it seems stuck :( |
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The problem is that I have no confidence that irc.mozilla.org doesn't block us regularly, because kiwiirc just has one source IP. |
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ping @aturon :) Could you ask someone at Mozilla to exclude kiwiirc from IP limits? Sorry for being pushy about this, but it really saddens me that onboarding experience for non-IRC users like myself is quite poor, and that we haven't been able to improve it despite much talk :) |
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I support this change. I have also tried Mibbit, and the reason why I don't like it is that whenever it sees something like |
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FWIW, the smileys can be disabled by using a theme. |
Hi!
This PR proposes to switch IRC links from mibbit to kiwiirc. This should probably be discussed by the community team, but I don't know how to tag them, but probably @erickt knows :)
Context:
I am among those people who don't feel comfortable with IRC, and for me, one of the greatest entry barriers was the absence of a good default web client. I've tried different clients (irccloud, mibbit, matix) unsuccessfully before I hit the kiwiirc, which makes IRC bearable for me (though I still don't know a ton of stuff, like how do you get those
* X thinks Ymessages, and how private messages work, if irc is sortof serverless, I would appreciate a link to a well-written short guide!).So am totally not sure that kiwiircs will provide the best unboarding experience for all folks new to IRC, but I am pretty much sure that it's better than mibbit :)
cc @jonathandturner @erickt