We have a GSoC student working on a RocketChat<~>Telegram<~>Irc bridge which as of now has support for files, images, video messages and so on. Take a look here http://rivadavide.blogspot.com/2017/08/brooklyn-02-released-ready-for.html . We are using it at WikiToLearn and it is working fine.
On Wed, Aug 9, 2017, 11:28 Christian Loosli <k...@fuchsnet.ch> wrote: > Post Scriptum, as I discussed this and learned that what I hinted at in > the - > cafe channel yesterday is public information: > > We (freenode) are looking into support (not moving to, mind) for rocket. > Some details can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/eximious/posts/ > > 10155436766365761?comment_id=10155438680590761&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A > %22R3%22%7D > <https://www.facebook.com/eximious/posts/10155436766365761?comment_id=10155438680590761&comment_tracking=%7B%22tn%22%3A%22R3%22%7D> > > (sorry for facebook link, quote for those who rather not: > "We (freenode) have had quite a few conversations with projects that > struggle > with Slack -- they use it but are finding it difficult, partly because it > is > proprietary and doesn't align too well with their values and partly > because it > is resulting in a great deal of community fragmentation. We're currently > looking at implementing rocket.chat support to allow projects such as > those to > map their own rocket.chat instances to their channel namespace on freenode > in > a bid to reduce the community fragmentation they experience. Totally hoping > that it will solve those issues for them!") > > which might be a solution that pleases both people who want to use Rocket > and > people who want to not abandon other more or less well used protocols. > > Bonus points: due to the Matrix and Telegram bridge we already have, if we > manage to properly integrate Rocket, one can probably use either of the > four > and be happy. Obviously with some loss of features, as e.g. protocol a > might > not support something of protocol b. How well this will be implemented > depends > on the bridge, e.g. files or stickers could be integrated via links iff > someone > codes that. > > Unfortunately IRC would still not get support for animated stickers and > custom > pile of poop emojis, sorry to crush hopes there. > > Sorry for not mentioning this earlier, I wasn't sure at this very early > stage > whether it is public or not. > > Regards, > > Christian > -- Cristian Baldi