Re: Matrix IRC bridge considered harmful

Can you explain to me what the big issue with web clients are? I keep
hearing over and over again that developers don't want to use web clients,
either in browser or with Electron, but I don't recall ever hearing a "why"
in there.

On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 3:24 PM Michael Catanzaro <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 12, 2020 at 2:41 pm, Britt Yazel <[email protected]> wrote:
> > No offense Michael, but the argument that you are making seems a
> > whole lot like "we're not going to use RocketChat, or even consider
> > it a legitimate option, so the rest of you can either fracture the
> > community (which will be on you) or you can get on board Matrix"
> >
> > Unfortunately, you've done nothing to quell my anxiety of using
> > Matrix, the complexity therein, or explain how it's a better
> > experience than RocketChat, but rather placed an ultimatum upon me
> > (and the foundation). Do you see an issue here?
>
> Perhaps my language was too strong.
>
> Honestly I think you should just poll the community to see whether it
> wants to use Rocket.Chat or not. I'm assuming support will be pretty
> low, because I don't think many devs will want to keep a web browser
> window dedicated to chat where a GNOME client would otherwise work. But
> if I'm wrong and people like it, then I will shut up, and you can
> proceed. :)
>
> Basically anything would be better than status quo, messages going to
> nowhere....
>
> Michael
>
>
>

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