On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 17:52:00 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote: > Like all sensible open source communities we use IRC lots for real > time communication essential to making low bandwidth decisions in a > reasonable timeframe as well as socialising. > > 20 years ago IRC was cool but these days real-time communication in > the non-geek world long since moved other places such as WhatsApp, > Facebook Messenger which are infinately more user friendly than IRC. > In the geek-world it has moved to Slack and Telegram. So KDE finds > itself spread between three real time communication methods with IRC > still the strongest but many new people reluctant to use it as scary > and unfamiliar while Slack and Telegram smell of being proprietary and > lacking some of the free-form nature of IRC. > > So my radical proposal for today is to consider moving all our > real-time communications wholesale to Rocket.Chat. Like Slack it takes > much of it's basic setup from IRC with #channels that anyone can set > up. Unlike Slack it's all free software and we can run our own > servers. Like Telegram it works on phones fine. Unlike IRC it > supports media files and friendly user names.
We have an alternative already working, which bridges IRC (freenode.net and OFTC): matrix.org. I don't know how many times I should repeat this, but many people are already using successfully (I monitor few channels, for example). So -1 for moving to Rocket.Chat. -- Luigi
