On 5/1/2019 5:18 AM, Pablo Vazquez wrote: > You still need to create an account on freenode to chat in blendercoders.
You don't, we temporary turned that on a while ago when a botnet was wreaking havoc on freenode, but in general that option is off and any user registered or not can join and talk in #blendercoders --Ray On 5/1/2019 5:18 AM, Pablo Vazquez wrote: >> - is wasting space when not logged in (It can be changed to "condensed >> mode" but only when logged in it apears) >> > Compact view can be set to default if enough people agree. > > >> - is slow: [1] >> > The version live in production now was right before an improvement that > speeds up the load/opening of rooms quite substantially, we just need to > update the docker image. > https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/13417#issue-251549810 > > >> - is big: 4.3 MB for a simple chat app [2] >> > I'd trade a couple of MBs for built-in attachments, screen-sharing, video > conferencing, audio message, email notifications, etc. > > >> - is increasing the barrier to entry. Previously you could just use the >> freenode web service to chat. Now you need to register for an account >> > You still need to create an account on freenode to chat in blendercoders. > All you need in blender.chat is a Blender ID account which most Blender > users have made for sites like devtalk, cloud, fund or network. > > >> - has no mobile app for my phone version >> > It's available on Android and iOS. > > >> - rocket.chat has 1.9k open issues on github, while IRC is battle-tested >> > Maybe you don't know how GitHub issues work? It's a bunch of tasks with > labels. 355 of those are marked as bugs, some as design, some as feature > proposals from 2015. > > >> Also consider that there are people with slow phones/slow connections. >> People who want better UI can always use riot.im, irccloud or any similar >> service. >> > We looked into matrix when we started blender.chat over a year ago and it > just didn't feel mature enough. Riot looks a lot better now than it did a > year ago, I wouldn't mind giving it a try if there is people willing to > help setting it up (rocket chat is literally just pulling a docker image). > I personally don't mind if it's rocket chat or riot or whatever, I just > like how much more accessible these apps make it to more people (there's a > reason why people use Slack, Discord, etc.). > > Blender forums used phpBB, but we moved to Discourse. > blender.org with Typo3 was fine, we moved to Wordpress. > Remember projects.blender.org? we moved to Phabricator. > We went from CVS to SVN to git. > > Moving *some* communication channels from IRC to something more media > friendly for a 3D software shouldn't be so shocking. > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
