<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">пт, 21 мая 2021 г. в 16:47, Luigi Toscano <<a href="mailto:ltoscano@redhat.com">ltoscano@redhat.com</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Friday, 21 May 2021 15:30:40 CEST Andrey Kurilin wrote:<br>
> пт, 21 мая 2021 г. в 15:16, Kashyap Chamarthy <<a href="mailto:kchamart@redhat.com" target="_blank">kchamart@redhat.com</a>>:<br>
<br>
> > <br>
> > <br>
> > who don't prefer IRC<br>
> <br>
> Why everyone points to third-party solutions for those who don't like IRC?<br>
> Why the modern chat-platform can be used as a main solution and those who<br>
> want IRC should look for third-party bridges to make it work in the good<br>
> old way?<br>
<br>
On the technical side, as pointed out by several people, this could be done <br>
with <a href="http://matrix.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">matrix.org</a> and its bridges, without having to leave IRC behind.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes, but as far as I understand most speakers suggest using matrix to workaround missing features of IRC, but not to make a new chat-platform to be used with IRC clients.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
> <br>
> My small experience:<br>
> Long time ago (4 years ago?!), I moved Rally community from IRC to Gitter. I<br>
> don't regret it. There was a bot for synchronizing messages between Gitter<br>
> and IRC, so no one was offended or ignored. Gitter (as like many modern<br>
> chat-platforms that are mentioned in this thread) provides web, mobile and<br>
> native clients. You just install or open browser tab it and it works. No<br>
> need to think about installing bouncer, configuring IRC client to do not<br>
> send disconnect signal to bouncer, and so on. From the beginning, most<br>
> newcomers & users that don't care much about openstack community workflows<br>
> started writing at Gitter, because it was much simpler (several clicks and<br>
> you can ask for help) and the trend persisted.<br>
> <br>
> I'm not saying that we need to use Gitter, it is going to die at some<br>
> point, but I would like to raise one more time an idea that IRC is a<br>
> good technology(as<br>
> like ADSL) that will be alive for long long years, but there are a lot of<br>
> interesting powerful solutions (i.e fiber networks).<br>
<br>
You may know already, but gitter is now based on <a href="http://matrix.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">matrix.org</a>:<br>
<a href="https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/07/gitter-now-speaks-matrix" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://matrix.org/blog/2020/12/07/gitter-now-speaks-matrix</a><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That is why I mentioned that I do not suggest Gitter and it is going to die at some point. ;)<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
-- <br>
Luigi<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Best regards,<br>Andrey Kurilin.<br></div></div></div>