On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 02:42:02PM +0100, Erno Kuvaja wrote:
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 2:34 PM Dmitry Tantsur <dtantsur@redhat.com> wrote:
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Probably not the best timing, but should we consider (again) running a more advanced free software chat system? E.g. Outreachy uses Zulip, Mozilla - Matrix, there are probably more.
Yeah I'd say not the greatest timing to start such a conversation under pressure.
FWIF I'd rather not. The signal to noise ratio tends to be very poor on all of them with their stickers, gifs and all the active media crap embedded in them.
I agree that the dancing poop GIFs are very distracting. So "yes" to sticking with IRC given its strengths and simplicity. Though, I'm biased here as a long-time happy IRC user. That said, two things: - Those who _do_ want to use Matrix seem to have an option in terms of Matrix <-> IRC bridge. I see several people with [m] in their IRC nicks on #virt channel on OFTC network. So people seem to successfully use IRC with Matrix. - IRC seems to give an outdated feel for many newcomers. So if there are other "better" FOSS alternatives that accomodates our community's needs — and without alienating existing IRC users' needs — we should be willing to explore. But I agree that this is not the right timing to start this discussion, and I'm not even sure if this is a "real problem". [...] -- /kashyap