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+1 on sticking with the IRC. It's simple, established, and a lot of us have
tuned our workflow around it.
As a person who was using discord and slack for some time in a professional
capacity, I can only say that it's hadly an improvement over IRC.

And in more general terms. When it comes to change, I don't think "it's
newer" is much of an argument by itself.

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 4:17 PM Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart at redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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 at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > 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   - IRC seems to give an outdated feel for many newcomers.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
>
>
>
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