On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 8:04 AM Mojca Miklavec <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > As a quick feedback: Gitter doesn't seem to be mature enough, so that > those of us who kept testing it (for about three weeks) would want to > use it in the long run. > > * The Android app constantly keeps crashing. > * Even if it is not crashing, I wasn't able to configure it to get > notifications when a new message arrived that I would want to see it. > * Browser updates sometimes work, sometimes not. Very often one needs > to keep refreshing the browser and hope that something works > (sometimes the contents disappears completely). > * Channels are very tightly bound to git repositories, but unless you > sell your soul to the plugin, it seems hard to configure it properly, > and we never got it working once we migrated the github repository to > a different address (not that we tried that hard, but we did try). > * Functionality is very limited. > * No topics. > * I was subscribed to another channel with heavy traffic that I'm not > really interested in that much other than maybe checking it once per > week. Once I allowed notifications from the app (I did that under > Windows) to be able to respond to the student faster, I started being > bombarded with messaged from the other channel, and I was unable to > silence them until I completely removed the channel. And even then I > kept getting email two days later about the new posts in that channel. > * Receiving a bunch of emails reminding me of content that I have > already read two days ago. > > While it is very easy to initially set up, it is just not yet worth > considering as a serious platform to "replace" our official > communication channel. > > What should we try next? >
Alternatives to IRC that I use (at work and tried at other projects) are Discord, Slack and MS Teams. Not too many options that I have explored, so did a quick google and found [1]. I would say we can try Riot (also mentioned earlier by Rainer), as I see lot of pros put up for it in [1]. We can also explore discord as an option. If none works, we can stick to IRC. [1] https://www.slant.co/options/4557/alternatives/~irc-alternatives -- Jackson Isaac
