@Nirelan

@Yaakov I respect your opinion on the "IRC" matter and you have presented it in a very reasonable manner, both here and in this thread https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/is-there-an-irc-channel-for-aac.157092/ I also acknowledge that you did not start this thread.

That being said, I can't help but think that the topic, with specific regard to AAC, is best raised in the Feedback and Suggestions sub-forum https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/forums/feedback-and-suggestions.11/ IOW as a site suggestion.

In fact, it has been suggested there, back in 2007 https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/irc.7892/#post-45753 https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/urgent-reply.15355/#post-95258 and in 2008 https://forum.allaboutcircuits.com/threads/urgent-reply.15355/#post-95258

I don't know how much interest would have increased since then, but it could be brought up there.

Also, this is not to say, that "chat" as a general topic of discussion, especially with programming, is bad.

 

My original suggestion wasn't intended to be a feature of the AAC site, just an additional allied venue. I was also not intending to make it the responsibility of the existing management or moderators of this site, who already have their hands full.

If there was grassroots interest and no official objections, it would have been a trivial matter for me to create a channel on one of several technically oriented networks. I don't think there is a need for a one-to-one correspondence with forum topics, and only envisioned one channel. Clearly it would be a very simple matter to add channels if there was some hot topic that warranted that. I was just thinking that regulars here, who are very active in many threads (particularly general threads) would find such a venue pleasant.

I am not really advocating it any more because many of the folks I would hope to have using it have made it clear they have no interest in, or actual enmity about, such a thing.

 

My original suggestion wasn't intended to be a feature of the AAC site, just an additional allied venue. I was also not intending to make it the responsibility of the existing management or moderators of this site, who already have their hands full.

If there was grassroots interest and no official objections, it would have been a trivial matter for me to create a channel on one of several technically oriented networks. I don't think there is a need for a one-to-one correspondence with forum topics, and only envisioned one channel. Clearly it would be a very simple matter to add channels if there was some hot topic that warranted that. I was just thinking that regulars here, who are very active in many threads (particularly general threads) would find such a venue pleasant.

I am not really advocating it any more because many of the folks I would hope to have using it have made it clear they have no interest in, or actual enmity about, such a thing.

ok point taken.

 

I have to use Slack all day, all of IT, Media Services, plus room support 3 separate channels to cover, I don't need a Chat room, I need to get away from that, if I have questions my Brothers in arms here are more than willing to help. I've yet to be ignored, you don't give someone a rock when they ask for bread.

I like being able to have a life, but when I'm curious I read all your post or at least most of them anyway. So for me a Hobby Guy sticking my noes into stuff I barely understand.

I've been here since 2010 and it's still an up hill climb for me. This is the only channel worth watching, not interested.


kv

 

I have to use Slack all day, all of IT, Media Services, plus room support 3 separate channels to cover, I don't need a Chat room, I need to get away from that, if I have questions my Brothers in arms here are more than willing to help. I've yet to be ignored, you don't give someone a rock when they ask for bread.

I like being able to have a life, but when I'm curious I read all your post or at least most of them anyway. So for me a Hobby Guy sticking my noes into stuff I barely understand.

I've been here since 2010 and it's still an up hill climb for me. This is the only channel worth watching, not interested.

kv

Your comment is confusing. Slack is not a thing on its own, its a communications medium. It has nothing to do with being ignored, it offers a different dynamic.

It's completely OK not to want to use realtime chat, but what you are saying here conflates the medium with the content and that doesn't really make sense. As I say, if you don't like it you shouldn't use it but you are addressing a visceral preference, not its actual utility.

On the other hand, I am going to bow out of this thread because I really find I like everyone here and I don't want to cause friction or animosity. I just can't agree with the rationales I have heard for the personal preferences that I am completely willing to honor.

 

Your comment is confusing. Slack is not a thing on its own, its a communications medium. It has nothing to do with being ignored, it offers a different dynamic.

It's completely OK not to want to use realtime chat, but what you are saying here conflates the medium with the content and that doesn't really make sense. As I say, if you don't like it you shouldn't use it but you are addressing a visceral preference, not its actual utility.

On the other hand, I am going to bow out of this thread because I really find I like everyone here and I don't want to cause friction or animosity. I just can't agree with the rationales I have heard for the personal preferences that I am completely willing to honor.

I think you may be reading me wrong, my English as a first language is not so great. When I say ignore, I mean in context of our Threads here, if I start a thread and need help after exhausting what little I know about electronics, someone has always helped.

I'm in the AV Engineering Media at work, technically I am a Tech III, I did worked 10 years part-time in a TV repair shop, worked manufacturing electronics for 3 years.

When I first came to the forum, my questions were hard to understand, because of my lack of EE education. AC/DC theory was about all I knew really, I'm not saying slack is bad, as you said before it works well here at the University I work for, all IT needs it to communicate, I'm just saying for me it would feel more work to try and read or participate in another communication protocol regardless of what it is, it's largely why I've never opened a Facebook account don't need more screen time, I personally need less but, that's just me.

Hopefully this make more sense and is less confusing.

kv

Edit: In addition I'm also a member of ETO. So reading stuff is about all I can do, I don't usually participate evenings or week days.