Re: Where else do you hangout?

[Jared Mauch via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

> On Aug 20, 2025, at 11:44 PM, steve ulrich via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org> wrote:
>
> the lindy effect for email is particularly strong in some communities.  NANOG seems to be one of them.

I think that for some of us, e-mail was the original version of IM, as it was/is the common cross-systems way to 
communicate with each other.  I was horrified when I was forced to sign up for an AIM account with one company but grew 
to be ok with it as a way to reach colleagues.

If you were always online, you could have a bot manage your presence on IRC to maintain history and other elements, but 
these days you take something like Slack/Discord and whatnot and it’s very much like that but “in the cloud” as a 
service vs having to each run your own bot.

It also doesn’t have the annoying/confusing IETF-type stuff that was in the Jabber protocol where you could have 
per-device presences that are different and lost messages because they sent something to a machine or device that won’t 
be online for a few days.

Now with Zoom, Slack, MS Teams, Webex(Teams/Spark), etc I’m back in the world where I used to have a common client like 
Adium that aggregated it all together and don’t have that option really these days.  Ideally the services would work on 
some sort of federation/interop but there’s not a lot of motivation/justification for that.

- Jared
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