Hi! I think the public dot.kde.org article was a little bit premature, registration does not work because of timeouts and/or CORS errors, ... Best regards Joseph Wenninger
Von meinem iPhone gesendet > Am 20.02.2019 um 15:37 schrieb Laszlo Papp <[email protected]>: > > > >> On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 2:30 PM Hans Tovetjärn <[email protected]> wrote: >> On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 15:07:09 CET Agustin Benito (toscalix) wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 1:52 PM Hans Tovetjärn <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > On onsdag 20 februari 2019 kl. 13:36:37 CET Paul Brown wrote: >> > > > Hi all, >> > > > >> > > > KDE has been looking for a better way of chatting and live-sharing of >> > > > information for several years now. IRC has been a good solution for a >> > > > long >> > > > time, but has centralized servers KDE cannot control, it is also >> > > > insecure >> > > >> > > In what way? You can connect and authenticate via TSL/SSL. If you bridge >> > > Matrix rooms and IRC channels, I don't think end-to-end encryption will >> > > work, so that doesn't matter anyway. >> > >> > from what I see in IRC/telegram promo related channels, there are >> > already discussions to be accurate when referring to IRC. It wouldn't >> > surprise me if corrections are on their way. >> > >> > Best Regards >> > >> > Agustin >> >> Yes. The original text: >> >> "IRC has been a good solution for a long time, but it has centralized >> servers >> KDE cannot control. It is also insecure and lacks features users have come >> to >> expect from more modern IM services." >> >> ...has been replaced with: >> >> "IRC has been a good solution for a long time, but our channels are >> currently >> on servers KDE cannot control. It also lacks features users have come to >> expect from more modern IM services." > > 1. Why does KDE need to control these channels? > > 2. This is still not a selling point for Matrix against IRC to be honest. > Because one can set up an IRC server just as well as a Matrix server. So, I > would not mention this in the article. > > I have the gut feeling that what KDE can only fairly claim is that some > people prefer Matrix over IRC. We are all different and that is fine. I would > not even use the term "better" or "worse" for either. It is just different. > That is all. It is ok to be different though. > >> >> The article is alright now. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Hans Tovetjärn (totte) >> [email protected] >> 0x9731B8FCED15437F
