I never heard before we have a Matrix enabled server. -1 for Rocket Chat and I will start on Matrix to test ASAP
On Tue, Aug 8, 2017, 20:17 Cristian Baldi <bld.cris...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hey there, > > I mainly contribute to the WikiToLearn project and for some months we have > been using Rocket.Chat (instead of Telegram and IRC which we used in the > beginning). > > First of all let me tell you that it is very hard to migrate users from an > existing communication service to a new service. Even if at WikiToLearn we > officially moved to Rocket.Chat some users still use the old communications > means daily (mostly for the offtopic channels but some users still write in > the main/official/support channel too). > > Rocket.Chat still has a lot of issues (mostly in term of user interface > and interaction, many little annoying things that make you hate the > platform, unless you get used to it). It is getting better daily but there > is still many work to do (just to give an insight they have 1.7k issues > open on their bug tracker, many are help requests and duplicates but many > other are proper bugs). > > The native client could be a solution to many of these UI problem but > after talking with a few people that developed software based on > Rocket.Chat (for example Davide Riva (which I am cc-ing, he will tell you > more) the KDE student working on the Chat Bridge project) there are also a > lot of issues with their API and inner functionalities (undocumented or > wrongly documented features). > > Rocket.Chat does not have an official mobile client as of today, again > Ruquola could solve this once it is compiled for Android. Right now the > official way to use Rocket.Chat on mobile is to use some kind of wrapped > WebView which does not work well (when I had that installed I did not > receive notifications or received them randomly). > > As Jonathan said Rocket.Chat (but really, any modern messaging system) > offers tons of features missing from IRC. > > Telegram works (outside the open source world) because it has great native > clients, cool features and it is easy to use. > I have not tried matrix but it looks promising. > A few months ago we also tried Mattermost (similar to Rocket.Chat but it > seems to have gotten much better). > IRC gets the job done but it lacks the features that everyone is used to > in 2017. > > I would suggest investigating all the alternatives and going with the one > that works and feels better, offering the best native experience and having > the most stable core. > > Cristian > > > On Tue, Aug 8, 2017 at 7:08 PM, Luca Beltrame <lbeltr...@kde.org> wrote: > >> Il giorno Tue, 08 Aug 2017 18:16:17 +0200 >> Luigi Toscano <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> >> ha scritto: >> >> > So -1 for moving to Rocket.Chat. >> >> -1 as well. As Luigi said, matrix.org is a better replacement because >> the bridge is already up there. Also, it is federated, and FOSS. >> >> -- >> Luca Beltrame - KDE Forums team >> KDE Science supporter >> GPG key ID: 6E1A4E79 >> >> >> >