Instead of quitting one could try IRC combined with the Matrix protocol bridge. This creates a very low threshold to ask questions (IRC on liberal.chat), while keeping the possibility to interact later even on the phone with the Element app.
Peter Scholtens 14 jun. 2021 09:24:29 Lex Trotman <ele...@gmail.com>: > Maybe its time to quit IRC totally, its rarely used and no devs "hang > out" there much now anyway. > > Redirect the few questions to github discussions or a free discourse > somewhere. Do it in a browser and then smartphones and other > platforms are possible. And with these previous conversations are > visible without having to read "backlog" in a different place, so > questioners can even see previous answers (gasp horror how modern!!!). > > And one less password and broken autostart of hexchat. > > Cheers > Lex > > On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 17:09, Dominic Hopf via Users > <users@lists.geany.org> wrote: >> >> I suggest to just head over to libera.chat with our channels as well. Just >> did that for example with #openrheinruhr two weeks ago or so. >> >> Regards, >> Dominic >> >> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 11:55 PM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troe...@uvena.de> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 13.06.21 20:41, Frank Lanitz wrote: >>>> Hi folks, >>>> >>>> I'm sorry -- not much time lately … >>>> A friend brought to my attention that there have been some unfunny >>>> events at freenode-network where our chat is also hosted at the moment. >>>> To be honest I did not yet follow this topic up and really lagging >>>> details (Anyone can give up some details here?) -- I want to ask for the >>>> future of the IRC chat? What do you think? >>> >>> Xfce and Django projects (just picked those two based on personal >>> preferences) moved to https://libera.chat: >>> https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2021-June/037352.html >>> >>> I guess this would be an option for us as well. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Enrico >>> >>> -- >>> Get my GPG key from https://www.uvena.de/pub.asc >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Users mailing list >>> Users@lists.geany.org >>> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Users mailing list >> Users@lists.geany.org >> https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users@lists.geany.org > https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users _______________________________________________ Users mailing list Users@lists.geany.org https://lists.geany.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/users