On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:08:08PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
There's quite a lot wrong here - a video meeting(!) to discuss
dropping a commonly used and well established channel of
communication. Well, I guess at least you didn't decide to use the
proprietary awfulness of Slack.
Couldn't you just talk about this on email?
We can do that too; Neal just suggested a video call as way to get
interested parties together.
And, yeah, I'm also not interested in slack.
What's the reason why hosting your own server for a fairly
uncommon
chat protocol is better than continuing to use IRC?
There are a number of things:
* We know IRC is a barrier for new users. Any onboarding which has to
include explaining what NickServ is is starting underwater -- and that's
just the start of it!
* IRC doesn't have persistence. People want that. Setting up ZNC is another
barrier.
* Being able to add reactions, send images, and edit typos are not
essential, but really quite nice.
* It's not all that uncomming; Mozilla, GNOME, and openSUSE have also moved
to Matrix.
* Since you mentioned Slack: let's get behind an open source alternative
before it's too late.
* Matrix has reasonably decent bridging to IRC, which will make migration
easy (and if you don't want to migrate ever, that will remain an option).
... and probably others.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader