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