Re: nmglug irc channel
Art Barnes <[email protected]>
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I’m fond of IRC though I wonder how much of it is nostalgia - I am of the impression that IRC is showing its age and there are a lot of inconsistencies in client implementations. I’ve heard good things about things about Matrix - most of the complaints about it seem to be philosophical rather than technical. > On May 26, 2021, at 6:53 PM, Mark Galassi <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> It still seems like things could shake out either way, >> but are folks planning on moving the nmglug irc channel >> to libera.chat or stick it out with freenode? > > If I might make a suggestion, IRC's model is annoying to many, including a super old timer such as myself. > > How about creating a Matrix room? > > There are many distributed chat systems vying for that space, but matrix has shown robustness handling thousands of people at major free/open-source conferences, and is convincing skeptics. Another candidate is mattermost, but I find it harder to get going. rocketchat is nice, but it seems to be losing out in the "market"-share battle. > > Of course it's all based on free s/w, with no proprietary javascript bits if you run it in your browser. There are also desktop and mobile apps that are free as well. _______________________________________________ nmglug mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nmglug.org/listinfo.cgi/nmglug-nmglug.org