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nickdesaulniers / fxos-irc

IRC client for FxOS (and now desktop FF)
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more helpful defaults for host/user/channels #70

Open rhelmer opened 10 years ago

rhelmer commented 10 years ago

It would be nice to default to irc.mozilla.org, and suggest a username and list of channels, instead of the current placeholders.

While I think really host list (issue #49) is a better idea, just having irc.mozilla.org be the placeholder for host and e.g. IRCMonkey for user and #firesea for channel would let people check the app out right away, and also trivially modify the defaults instead of having to enter everything by hand.

nickdesaulniers commented 10 years ago

Mmm, this is certainly something I've been on the fence about. You make a strong case for usability. The counter point is that suddenly we have way more users on our IRC server than usual, all named IRCMonkey. I guess the server would increment the username? Otherwise we could randomly generate a username or tack on a UUID or something. Also, I'm not sure how I feel about Monkey not being localized, though if we did implement this, it would be obvious who was just checking out the app by their username.

rhelmer commented 10 years ago

The "IRCMonkey" name could be localized - I like the idea of tacking on a UUID. This is what the Mozilla IRC server does if you take a registered nick and don't authenticate with nickserv, FWIW (it renames you to IRCMonkey[n] where n is some random string of numbers)