Yes, in general, user friendliness is a benefit that's rather important,
especially when you're trying to encourage a platform to be used by more
people.
Nate
On 6/10/20 5:14 PM, Jacky Alcine wrote:
The only "benefit" here seems to be user friendliness (HTTP is ancient and C++
is but both are still used)
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020, at 16:07, Nate Graham wrote:
+1 if even only for the new contributor friendliness angle. Many other
channels are bridged to Telegram; probably this one should be as well.
Nate
On 6/10/20 5:05 PM, Carson Black wrote:
Currently, #kde-devel is not set up with an IRC bridge to Telegram,
meaning users cannot access it from Telegram.
Plugging it into our current bridge infrastructure would have the
following benefits:
- Telegram-only users (yes, those exist because neither IRC nor Matrix
are suitable for their needs and wants) don't have a room to discuss
KDE development stuff, and end up clogging other rooms with tangential
topics
- This lowers the barrier to entry for new contributors regarding
conversation both in terms of internet connections (IRC and Matrix
aren't very good regarding tolerance to bad internet for different
reasons) and in terms of user experience (IRC is ancient, Matrix is
often overwhelmed and laggy).
- Improving the coverage of the IRC bridge infrastructure allowing
contributors to freely choose what service they'd like to converse
with KDE with.
If nobody has any objections to bridging #kde-devel to IRC, the bridge
bot will be set up to bridge https://t.me/kdedevel to #kde-devel.
