IRC works well enough. Let's stick to IRC for realtime chat. I often idle in #gnustep on freenode. Not too much dev activity or idling in there.
Beyond that... some members of this community have experience using XMPP, and I think most would be extremely unlikely to use voice calls (good voice/video being a major attraction for using Discord). If there's interest for VVoIP, I could put effort into getting Jitsi to run, given it's a decent WebRTC FLOSS solution. (Jitsi regularly have some dev presence at FOSDEM.) If we want to have an XMPP server for gnustep.org, I have experience with running an XMPP server. But, because TLS is pretty much mandatory for XMPP these days, I would be uncomfortable actually running gnustep.org service on my machine, as it would require that I obtain the TLS certs for gnustep.org (which I don't feel too comfortable holding, and it would involve ~yearly money, or manual steps + DNS/website access: https://certbot.eff.org/docs/using.html#manual). XMPP has benefits like multi-user-chat having chat history. There's image upload support, too, and the ability to connect with more than one client into one chatroom with the same nickname. But it's likely not worth it. So I'd say just use IRC. On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 6:06 PM Svetlana Tkachenko <[email protected]> wrote: > > IRC works well for me. When I need audio or video chat for collaboration, I > use gnu jami. > > -- > gry at #gnustep at freenode live chat > http://www.kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/gnustep >
