I agree! A bunch of us are using the #emscripten room on discord together with the larger WebAssembly community, but like you I'd prefer to see something more open in use. So if someone wants to set up a room on matrix or freenode that would be great! There's no reason to have just one location, and we can document all the options equally.
- Alon On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 10:27 AM Hostile Fork <hostilef...@gmail.com> wrote: > In around a month Mozilla will remove the irc.mozilla.org IRC server >> we've been using for #emscripten. So we need another option for real-time >> discussion. >> One option is discord, where the wasm community has been gathering, and >> there's already an #emscripten room there that someone set up, >> > (...) >> > Thoughts? >> > > I have followed this mailing list, but not the chat--wasn't aware of it! > Regardless, my $0.25 (inflation): I feel switching to a closed-source (or > otherwise centrally controlled option) would be a step backward from IRC. If > the technorati are to be role models and making any kind of stand for the > future, there must be a push past the captive mentality of "trusting some > guy's website". Decentralized platforms like matrix.org won't have a > chance unless we give them that chance. > > Having tried out Discord (for the mentioned WebAssembly group, was quiet > when I was there) and Slack, I strongly oppose usage of either. For a > service this simple, inviting middlemen into the picture is anything but > future-proof. > > > It's a lot of deja-vu all over again. Recently I'm having to look into > other chat options for my group. We'd rather liked StackOverflow's chat > feature, and had been using it for a decade. But times change; the SO of > today is not the one we knew then. Recent events there have eroded trust > beyond repair: > https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/342039/firing-community-managers-stack-exchange-is-not-interested-in-cooperating > > > Hence I'd like to see matrix.org ...or if that seems too avant-garde for > some reason, then irc.freenode.net seems a low-effort change. > > > --Brian > > > P.S. I always thought the following talk was good to remind one of the > stakes, James Vasile on FreedomBox: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bDDUyJSQ9s > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to emscripten-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/bd4e26a2-5aa4-4e75-970b-b5b586368942%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/bd4e26a2-5aa4-4e75-970b-b5b586368942%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to emscripten-discuss+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/emscripten-discuss/CAEX4NpSPdFqdiGtkBsYnbHmsMoDA%2BDwfwQmTro8Zf%3DxceQHFAQ%40mail.gmail.com.
