On Dienstag, 8. August 2017 22:46:18 CEST Elvis Angelaccio wrote: > On martedì 8 agosto 2017 21:46:58 CEST, Riccardo Iaconelli wrote: > > On 8 August 2017 at 20:01, Luigi Toscano <luigi.tosc...@tiscali.it> wrote: > >> Can rocket.chat be bridged too? If not, promoting it would > >> create another island. > > > > With Brooklyn, you can create n-ways bridges between Rocket.chat, IRC, > > Telegram and possibly many more. All of this while handling attachment > > support, replies, and other nifty features where the protocol supports > > them (or falling back to the best support possible - e.g. if I send an > > image on Telegram you would see a URL on IRC to download the image). > > Since Matrix supports watching IRC, this means that we could in theory > > keep the four systems together with some level of interoperability, > > especially during a transition phase. I am not sure we really want to > > do this though. > > > > Now, my personal opionion - Rocket.chat has been a blood bath for > > WikiToLearn (most newbies are there, most old-timers are on Telegram, > > and they communicate through bridges, we lost several people in the > > migration), but in spite of this I still consider myself in favor of > > switching to it, for a few reasons. The problem is that all tools have > > their big drawbacks, and we need to keep using communication methods > > which are used by the rest of the world, to lower the access barrier > > for new contributors, and for leveraging on tools created by others. > > I'm not sure I get this argument. Do we have evidence that new contributors > are scared by IRC? How is signin up on RocketChat/Telegram/whatever easier > than using http://webchat.freenode.net/ ?
We do have evidence. For example a significant portion of the VDG has never been in any of our IRC channels and would never want to go there. I bet that the same goes for WtL. > Again, do we have evidence that Rocket chat is more used than IRC or other > protocols? I'd be very surprised if that's the case. Of course rocket.chat is not used more than IRC at the moment. It's still a quite new technology. I bet that if you'd show some 20-year-old rocket.chat and http://webchat.freenode.net/ side-by-side and asked them which one they'd prefer, the clear majority would go with the former. bet as in put actual money on it.