Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-11-15 Thread Troy A. Griffitts
I know many other collaboration frameworks were discussed and this email is not meant to discourage their use, and I realize Bibletime mentioned they went with OFTC for IRC, and I don't mean to disagree with their decision... Preparing for these conferences this week, I found that our "chat wi

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Jaak Ristioja
Since my original notice generated a long but an unrelated thread about the future of the #sword channel under the same e-mail subject header, I want to reassure everyone interested in BibleTime development that we don't have any plans to move away from IRC at this point and active BibleTime de

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Nic Carter
Besides Discord not being FOSS, Discord is a great choice. They have expanded it to be useful for much more than just gaming now. It does allow different nicknames for different servers. I haven’t tried, but I have connected to people through it who suddenly have different names depending on if

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Greg Hellings
shortness, typos and weird > autocorrects. > > > ---- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net > From: Greg Hellings > To: SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum > CC: > > > > > On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:04 PM Karl Kleinp

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread ref...@gmx.net
I think the problem will be to find something with similar longevity, simplicity and ease to IRC. Does this even exist? PeterSent from my mobile. Please forgive shortness, typos and weird autocorrects. Original Message Subject: Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.netFrom

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Greg Hellings
On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 12:04 PM Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > On 5/20/21 12:55 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: > > Is this a time to consider a move to an alternative platform altogether? > > > I find Discord usable for several purposes. Is it possible to have > different names per Discord "server"? > Pers

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
On 5/20/21 12:55 PM, Greg Hellings wrote: > Is this a time to consider a move to an alternative platform altogether? I find Discord usable for several purposes. Is it possible to have different names per Discord "server"? I'm not going to do anything about the current  #xiphos for a bit just yet.

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Greg Hellings
Not to my knowledge. If much/most of the staff is moving to libera and, from what I've heard, a number of the hardware backers are as well, I imagine all of them are going to be unstable for a while until the new owner spins up and trains replacement hardware and staff on Freenode. Is this a time

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
Is there any reason to believe oftc.net (or any other) would be superior to libera.chat in quality/population/visibility/ease-of-use? ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-20 Thread Greg Hellings
All of the FOSS communities I'm connected to and listening in on through work are moving to libera.chat, following the biggest section of the staff from Freenode. --Greg On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 5:10 PM Karl Kleinpaste wrote: > First I saw mention of libera.chat in existing freenode #sword. Now

Re: [sword-devel] #bibletime is now on irc.oftc.net

2021-05-19 Thread Karl Kleinpaste
First I saw mention of libera.chat in existing freenode #sword. Now I see ofte.net. I don't have an opinion about them because I know nothing of either. But could we gain some consensus /before/ jumping overboard? ___ sword-devel mailing list: sword-deve