On: Chat is a bad UI pattern for development tools

[taeric]

Agreed if it is correspondence that we are talking about. So, agreed I'm probably too strong that anything needing filtering and such is bad.

I'm thinking of things that are assembled. The correspondence that went into the assembly is largely of historical interest, but not necessarily one of current use.

[packetlost → taeric]

Yup, I agree there. Email is a horrible means of collaborating on changes in general, but doubly so in realtime. But so is IM.

[esafak → taeric]

So you mean like collaborating on a document? Modern word processors are versioned, or you can use text and your own VCS, same as with your code.

Is your issue that you want to discuss the thing you are collaborating on outside of the tool you are creating it in?

[taeric → esafak]

This feels inline with my point? Versioning of documents is better done using other tools. Correspondence is fine over email.

We have some tools integrated with email to help version control things. But the actual version control is, strictly, not the emails.