<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 18, 2019, at 13:18, Chandler Carruth via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org" class="">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">We're just adding these for now, but I'd like people to seriously try using them. While IRC has served us fairly well, I think it is one of the bigger barriers to entry. </span></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div>I’m not sure IRC is really a barrier to general llvm work entry. It’s hardly used anymore. There’s a fairly small group of people regularly active there these days, and most people are getting by without it. I do think it would be better if it was more active, or replaced/supplemented with something that would draw more people in.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>For me personally, the main benefit of discord or something else over IRC is really a workaround for being able to access it on the corporate network. It’s blocked when I’m on the VPN, so whether I’m on IRC irritatingly depends on whether I need to use the VPN at the moment.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>-Matt</div></body></html>