Aren't all the kids these days moving to Discord? Slack is inefficient as the history is rolling unless you pay for more.
I would worry about moving it under Digia (tQtCo), because I'd expect them to encumber the access to it(paywall, ads, tracking, etc*). I don't trust them. Perhaps the KDE people would operate the Discord infrastructure? * Before you laugh, and say that is crazy, consider that the online Qt Docs search results now have ads: https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/search-results.html?q=camera shows 4 ads for me. And I don't know of any other toolkit who serves their documentation with ads. Take for example mozdev: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=camera shows 0 ads. React, 0 ads. I figure it's only a matter of time until the actual documentation pages have ads too. (There may be good reasons for ads, but it's still not a good look.) > Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2021 at 10:49 AM > From: "Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development" <development@qt-project.org> > To: development@qt-project.org > Subject: Re: [Development] Changes to Freenode's IRC > > On 19/05/2021 16:37, Andy Nichols wrote: > > Rather than just move to another IRC server, we should really take this as > > an opportunity to move to another chat service as the official Qt Project > > chat. IRC has a terrible user experience and is not at all accessible for > > people who haven't been using it for decades like many of us. It does us a > > huge disservice when trying to attracting new contributors to point to our > > IRC. There are lots of better options out there now (which I see some of > > you on already), so lets move on already. > > The mandatory question is always the same: which ones? > > Do they have goals, policies, end-user agreements that are compatible > with a free software project? Do they have strong privacy requirements? Etc. > > Thanks, _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
