Re: irc.libera.chat ?

Thank you for helping me understand the difference between a mailing list
and IRC

On Sun, May 18, 2025 at 5:31 PM Stefan Dösinger <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> > Am 17.05.2025 um 13:54 schrieb zhengxianwei <[email protected]>:
> >
> > May I ask, what's the difference between asking questions on
> irc.libera.chat and asking here?
> >
> > Will this place gradually be phased out, with activity gradually
> shifting over there?
>
> Both of them are valid and both of them will exist in the future.
>
> IRC is a more real-time communication system. If you are lucky, and a
> person who can answer your questions is sitting at their computer, it is
> easy to have a quick back and forth communication. On the other hand, in
> plain IRC you don't see messages that are sent while you are offline (*).
>
> Mails to the mailing list are stored and delivered later, so someone who
> is currently on vacation can see it in 3 weeks.
>
> Both have their place, and will continue to be used by the Wine project.
> Although I must admit I look less and less at IRC messages, in particular
> since my employer switched its internal communications to Matrix. Now my
> IRC client is an extra program I have to start up and often forget about.
>
> I hope this provides some clarification.
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan
>
> (*): There are separate tools like ZNC that can store IRC messages for you
> while your computer is off, but they need separate setup.
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