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пт, 21 мая 2021 г. в 16:47, Luigi Toscano <ltoscano at redhat.com>:

> On Friday, 21 May 2021 15:30:40 CEST Andrey Kurilin wrote:
> > пт, 21 мая 2021 г. в 15:16, Kashyap Chamarthy <kchamart at 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. ;)


> --
> Luigi
>
>
>

-- 
Best regards,
Andrey Kurilin.
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