Oh. I looked it over carefully twice (once in my RSS reader and once before commenting) to make sure IRC wasn’t there since it was quite an omission, but now that I look a third time… I suppose that kind of illustrates the overall point well.
How are we actually to construct future converging standards if that meme gets in the way of real progress?
By deleting existing standards. By doing actual work to redistribute people toward better existing standards from worse ones. By having people migrate from at least two deleted standards every time you make a new one.
https://xkcd.com/927/
Or even more oddly on point, today’s XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1810/
No IRC :(
IRC is near the center.
Oh. I looked it over carefully twice (once in my RSS reader and once before commenting) to make sure IRC wasn’t there since it was quite an omission, but now that I look a third time… I suppose that kind of illustrates the overall point well.
That meme is poor and should die. How are we actually to construct future converging standards if that meme gets in the way of real progress?
Also as someone in charge of one of the chat groups, I have no problem with another and am already in this discord.
So in response to your complaint—no.
By deleting existing standards. By doing actual work to redistribute people toward better existing standards from worse ones. By having people migrate from at least two deleted standards every time you make a new one.
Situation: there are 16 competing standards.
for the record, the discord is not meant to be a standard. just another place to talk.
By being accepting of converging solutions and rejecting diverging proposals. I personally think Discord falls in the latter.