Hi all, Over the past week or so I've been trialling Matrix.org[1] as an alternative to my IRC client. This was partly due to my own curiosity, and partly because a few people keep suggesting Slack (my objections to Slack are, I think, well known :P).
Overall I'm pretty impressed with Matrix, at least enough to ask for more testers. The rooms are "plumbed-in" to the IRC rooms, so it doesn't matter if you're on Matrix or IRC, you'll see the same content. (and not via a single account). Indeed, I've been on a Matrix client for the last week and only a few people have noticed :P. A few other good points to Matrix: * Open source (of course :P) * Federated (our channels are on the main matrix.org server, for now) * Persistent by default (for all you people without IRC bouncers) * End-to-end encrypted by default, except plublic rooms * Plenty of clients (Riot.im is nice, WeeChat plugin for CLI, etc)[2] The only downside I can see is that only registered IRC users can private-message a Matrix user - unregistered users get a polite message about need to register first. This doesn't apply to channels, only PMs. I don't feel this is too bad, registering to IRC is trivial, and most support should happen in the channels anyway. I'll stress that there is *no need* to change anything if you're happy with IRC, those channels are not going away. But if you've been itching for something a little more flashy, or just an easy way to have a persistent connection, Matrix may be of use. I'm announcing this here before I do it on -users to see if anyone wants to play / help me find issues. If you do hop on Matrix, I'm gwmngilfen:matrix.org :) [1] https://matrix.org/ [2] https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now.html Greg -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "foreman-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to foreman-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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