This is an UU thread in the UU subforum talking about UU's irc channel. Why would Sam, UU's leader, lie about UU's policy.
I lead the UU forum community and UU tiering, nothing else. I'm not going to force myself to use PS's terrible chat system to moderate a chat with 100+ users who don't talk about anything relevant or remotely interesting 95%+ of the time. Also, the tournament related spam is annoying as fuck. If I wanted to moderate a subpar chat, I would had never left PO.
The main reasons why
I don't like using PS for anything other than playing tournament games:
- My laptop's screen is decently "big". It's absurd that the chat is so goddamn small, like 1/3 of my screen, and there's so much wasted space
http://puu.sh/jsrMz/183063ef5e.png.
- The PM system is utter garbage. Everything about it is terrible.
- PS's main server is annoyingly laggy for me
- I have 10+ tabs open almost all the time. Checking PS's tab regularly is just painful
- It makes firefox laggy if I have too many other tabs open.
- Can you even autojoin channels in PS???
Some people might like using PS, but I don't. If PS's chat and PMs were half as good as PO's, which is worse than irc, I would probably use it. PS is extremely convenient for battling, but it's pretty subpar for everything else.
My irc client is chatzilla. The chat doesn't look like complete garbage (
http://puu.sh/jssv5/9525f61cfb.png), infinitely more customizable than PS, it auto sign-ins and joins 12~ channels (and this took me 30 sec and 12~ right clicks to setup), much easier to deal with multiple pms, I don't have to jump through hoops to make a new channel, I can automatically save logs into my computer, doesn't mess with my tabs, and WCOP and SPL stuff happen on irc.
Even if I ignore the user specific issues, which aren't fixable in a chat as big as the UU room without overly strict moderation, irc is a much better option for me.
PS: Easiest and fastest way of contacting me is irc.