IRC #olimex 2025-09-02

[19:14:45] <zChris> Arent people talkative anymore
[19:46:24] <bill-auger> zChris: just FYI, IRC is not much like chatting "rooms" thsee days - these free-software channels are mainly for tech support and collaboration more than socializing
[19:47:03] <zChris> Yeah but that doesnt seem to be happening either :)
[19:47:21] <bill-auger> this channel has never been very active
[19:47:56] <bill-auger> olimex tech support is probably best via email
[19:48:14] <zChris> Its a shame, i like IRC, but i understand why its happening
[19:48:18] <zChris> Yeah
[19:48:32] <bill-auger> nothing happened in this channel - it was never popular or chatty
[19:52:03] <zChris> and discord has taken over as a way to connect too
[19:53:57] <nedko> irc is great :)
[19:54:37] <zChris> yeah i like it too, but it is also old
[20:02:38] <bill-auger> thats too specific too - matrix is the free equivalent - same deal, the general trend is "web chat": doing everything in a web browser rather than libre native applications
[20:03:29] <bill-auger> FWIW, if any example deserves to be the most well-known originator of what matrix and discord later copied, that originator would be slack.com - thats where proprietary software devs mass migrated to, years before discord
[20:03:58] <zChris> Yeah we use it at our work
[20:04:48] <bill-auger> discord originated from the gaming community, to replace team-speak fdor example - not to replace any conventional "chat" application as i would define it