Le 23/08/2023 à 03:40, Paul Brown a écrit :

Kdenlive is another example where most users on both the Spanish and
English channels are largely on Telegram.

Hello,

As a (former/on pause) kdenlive dev & community member, I used to switch between forums, bugzilla, mailing list, phabricator, gitlab, reddit, telegram and IRC/matrix (the bridges failing regularly, I had the habit to access the channel from either Telegram, IRC or Matrix depending on the mood or device under hands). Telegram itself had a general user channel, a "development" channel (more oriented on technical questions, with dev topics only during GSoC), +French/Spanish/Portugese... Each communication channel as its own sub-community, with its own level of skills & associated questions, interest in basic or new features, advice accuracy, involvement in growing the software... Also, even with huge number of listeners, only few of them were participating in discussion, and those motivated ones were generally registered and active on several channels.

In the case of my Kdenlive experience, I don't feel that connecting 2 of these channels (telegram-IRC) is so dramatically important. I rather felt the bridging artifacts more annoying (users duplication, quoting "ircsomebot", truncating messages, messages delays...) We shouldn't shutdown the telegram channel, letting this mutual help community live its own life (like reddit for example), just letting them aware that there is an official community channels (pinned message linking to IRC-matrix). KDE members are of course free to participate in discussions anywhere they want, but loading KDE resources (sysadmin team & machines) with all possible proprietary network doesn't seem a priority for me.

I hope this helps,
good luck to all!

Vincent

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