Re: Telegram group

Paul Brown <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jul 2017 08:58:47 +0200
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.kde.events
Organization	KDE e.V.
Message-ID	<1573370.rddntr7cJE@linux-lpbb>
On Monday, 31 July 2017 03:23:30 CEST elcaseti . wrote:
> I don't know if it would be practical to use both Signal Private Messenger
> & Telegram for promo.  Just thought I should mention that Signal Private
> Messenger would work for this use, & appears to be more secure than
> Telegram.  Cheers

I would personally prefer a fully FLOSS solution, preferably an XMPP-compliant 
one like Jabber or, if we are concerned about security TOX. But I see several 
drawbacks to that:

- We are not that concerned with security anyway. There is nothing we are 
going to discuss in the group that I foresee we cannot share with the world at 
large.

- None of those services, Signal, Jabber and TOX, are nearly as popular as 
Telegram. If Telegram is good enough for what we need, we should probably 
avoid making access more difficult to the Promo group by using a software that 
not many people will have heard of, let alone installed.

- Telegram supports natively a wider range of platforms, including most 
desktops or even the command line. Yes, Signal has a desktop client too, but 
it requires you install Chrome and Chromium. Nothing wrong with that, but it 
is just another hurdle that makes a little more inconvenient.

- Promo on Telegram has already taken off and most people seem to be find it 
useful and enjoyable, plus the bridge to the IRC is up and working fine. Maybe 
undoing that work now would not be very efficient.

Despite the above, I do hope you join us, either on the IRC or Telegram.

Cheers

Paul



> 
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Saturday, 29 July 2017 19:02:31 CEST Valorie Zimmerman wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 5:07 AM, Paul Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Is there anybody on here that can help get the IRC bridge done
> > 
> > quickly? It
> > 
> > > > would be good get it done asap to avoid both channels from diverging.
> > > > 
> > > > The task I posted on Phabricator is this one:
> > > > 
> > > > https://phabricator.kde.org/T6661
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks
> > > > 
> > > > Paul
> > > 
> > > If that task is for the sysadmins (which it should be) none of us will
> > > be able to see it. You can always ping them directly in #kde-sysadmins
> > > on IRC.
> > > 
> > > Valorie
> > 
> > It's sorted. Bhushan helped out. Thanks.
> > 
> > Paul
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