Bernie Innocenti kirjoitti 11.6.2020 klo 9.38:
Doesn't Riot.im support images well enough for your use-case? It's free
software, and it's becoming fairly mature lately.
The root issue for both Telegram and Matrix seems to be that they're
bridging through a legacy platform like IRC. Would it be fair to say
that this problem will slowly resolve itself in time, as users leave IRC?
I don't mean to troll: I've been on IRC myself for 20+ years, but the
protocol has been stagnating and clients requires too much setup for
newcomers, particularly when you consider identity, presence and
persistence. Other open source projects are migrating to Matrix or
Gitter, and soon or later KDE will need to make a decision.
While progress with the IRC protocol has been slow, I would say freenode
is suffering from stagnation the most at the moment. A service like
KiwiBNC can act as a shim on top of freenode to bring modernity to
everyone, but obviously limits to UX improvements will be hit. Freenode
could solve this by moving to an actively-maintained IRCd (or invest a
lot in their homegrown one).
An alternative would be setting up completely self-hosted IRC infra.
This would really open up the possibilities as there are solutions like
https://oragono.io/ which comes with an integrated bouncer.
Ilmari
