On Wed, 12 Feb, 2020 at 12:30, Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org>
wrote:
(b) Replace our IRC with an actual Matrix server, so we get native
Matrix. Matrix is very nice as long as you're not using the abysmal
IRC bridge, which is unfit for purpose.
+1
The usability of IRC is terrible for normal people and when there's a
TZ difference. In fact, having a web interface is actually a great boon
for non-technical people, since at most people using Linux are able to
create an account on a web site.
Using something that isn't libre and that doesn't have a CoC is going
to inevitably end up being the same kind of disaster as GitHub and
GitLab when the company ends up being trash and/or they pull the
freemium carpet out from under us.
Further, anything that isn't libre and that doesn't have a native GNOME
client is a massive show of no confidence in our own platform. Fractal
isn't perfect, but it's better than no client.
Personally I'd like to see XMPP being used, but we don't have any
decent, modern, native clients (although Dino is shaping up pretty
nicely - https://dino.im/) and it seems to have been put in the
too-hard basket by too many people.
So despite it's failings, I'd rather see us use Matrix rather than IRC
or something like RocketChat.
//Mike
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⊨ Michael Gratton, Percept Wrangler.
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