[nmglug] nmglug irc channel

[Art Barnes]

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 <mark at galassi.org> wrote:
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>> 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?
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> If I might make a suggestion, IRC's model is annoying to many, including a super old timer such as myself.
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> How about creating a Matrix room?
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> 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.
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> 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.