{"id":25120,"date":"2019-04-29T11:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=25120"},"modified":"2019-04-29T11:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T15:09:08","slug":"mozilla-looking-for-irc-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/29\/mozilla-looking-for-irc-replacement\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Looking for IRC Replacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exple.tive.org\/blarg\/2019\/04\/26\/synchronous-text\/\">Mike Hoye<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/exple.tive.org\/blarg\/2019\/04\/26\/synchronous-text\/\">\n<p>I wasn&rsquo;t in the room when IRC.mozilla.org was stood up, but from what I&rsquo;ve heard IRC wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;chosen&rdquo; so much as it was the obvious default, the only tool available in the late &rsquo;90s. Suffice to say that as a globally distributed organization, Mozilla has relied on IRC as our main synchronous communications tool since the beginning. For much of that time it&rsquo;s served us well, if for some less-than-ideal values of &ldquo;us&rdquo; and &ldquo;well&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We&rsquo;ve come to the conclusion that for all IRC&rsquo;s utility, it&rsquo;s irresponsible of us to ask our people &#x2013; employees, volunteers, partners or anyone else &#x2013; to work in an environment that we can&rsquo;t make sure is healthy, safe and productive.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In the next small number of months, Mozilla intends to deprecate IRC as our primary synchronous-text communications platform, stand up a replacement and decommission irc.mozilla.org soon afterwards. I&rsquo;m charged with leading that process on behalf of the organization.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Hoye: I wasn&rsquo;t in the room when IRC.mozilla.org was stood up, but from what I&rsquo;ve heard IRC wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;chosen&rdquo; so much as it was the obvious default, the only tool available in the late &rsquo;90s. Suffice to say that as a globally distributed organization, Mozilla has relied on IRC as our main synchronous communications [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2019-04-29T15:09:11Z","apple_news_api_id":"eaecc7c7-c4d5-438e-b526-b235badc8c8e","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-04-29T15:09:13Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A6uzHx8TVQ461JrI1utyMjg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[827,410],"class_list":["post-25120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-chat","tag-mozilla"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25121,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25120\/revisions\/25121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}