If you want I can try to setup the Community and the IRC bridge... On Thu, 16 May 2019, 08:31 Ruben Di Battista, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I would like to stress once again about Matrix. > > If we setup Matrix, we can bridge the channels with whatever service you > might need. First of all IRC, so people that like to keep hanging out there > can still do it with the additional benefits of having more people to talk > with. > > These other people would access the same chat stream from whatever client > they want to (we might need to setup self hosted bridges for them...). That > means potentially you can have bridges from Gitter, Rocket.Chat, Slack or > even WhatsApp if you like so, altogether working bijectively. > > I would strongly consider it since this way we are not stuck with a > specific service but you can merge them together if you wish so... > > I would propose to setup a Matrix community for Macports and bridge its > channels with the IRC ones. This does not need any self hosting capability. > > As a step two we might also want to experiment with the Gitter bridge > since someone else already configured a channel there... > > What do you think? > > > > > On Thu, 16 May 2019, 08:21 Rainer Müller, <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 2019-05-14 18:11, Rainer Müller wrote: >> > For the self-hosted options, Rocket Chat would be an option. However, >> > when we used it at work, after a while I started to miss some kind of >> > threading for longer conversations. Although we also usually do not >> > have >> > long conversations or that much activity on IRC, so maybe this is not >> > that important here. >> >> Turns out the newest version of Rocket Chat already has >> "sub-discussions" for this, so my point above is not fully valid. I have >> not worked with the latest version, so my experience with Rocket Chat >> might be more limited than I thought. >> >> Rainer >> >
