On 19/11/2020 19:25, Adam Williamson wrote:
I mean, I'm an old fogey too, but at *some* point we do have to
accept
that new things can be actively better.
True.
I honestly can see exactly zero downsides to using a Matrix setup as
compared to using IRC, and a giant pile of upsides, starting with "I no
longer need to dedicate a small portion of my brain to remembering how
my IRC bouncer setup works and maintaining it".
Well my experience when I looked at matrix desktop clients
before was that they needed more screen real estate to be
usable than IRC clients, which is certainly one downside and
probably a direct consequence of rich media support.
There's also the fact that unless I can get it to talk to all
the same chat systems I have pidgin talking to I would need to
be running two clients instead of one.
I am interested though, and did actually explore the idea of
running my own home server and what I could bridge it to (so
not that different to running my own bouncer now...) recently.
Anyway I just looked at the three clients that were suggested
earlier - all three are using Qt which makes them virtually
unusable on a wayland/gnome desktop as far as I can see as the
resize handles are so small they're impossible to use.
More amusingly one of them crashed as soon as I logged in and
a second went into a "your window is too small mode" as soon
as I resized it to match my IRC client.
The third was better, but rendered the conversation in that
left/right style of SMS clients, which is horrible for a chat
room.
No doubt there are others I can try...
Tom
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