Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful
Alexandre Franke <[email protected]>
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On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 10:43 PM Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem there is simply that you can never log off once you join the IRC bridge Ha! So that must be what Georges was talking about! I didn’t get that it was about *IRC* servers. > (or, if such a way exists, it's so hard to discover that the GNOME > community is not using it). There actually is a way. Once more it involves the GIMPNet IRC Bridge status conversation. People can start a new conversation with @gimpnet-irc:gnome.org by the way if they don’t have it anymore. The bot has a !quit command and its help says: `!quit : Leave all bridged channels, on all networks, and remove your connections to all networks.` > So if you try the IRC bridge once just to > see what it's like, you're forever left with a ghost user account that > people will send private messages to without realizing you can't read > them (or even public messages, if your real account is offline). Removing inactive account is kind of a hard problem (would you be happy to find out you lost your nick and history if for some reason you came back a long while after your last use?) but I *think* matrix.org actually has a policy to clean them up after several months, which would reduce that issue. -- Alexandre Franke GNOME Hacker _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list