[Geany-Users] Future of the IRC ...

[Peter Scholtens]

Instead of quitting one could try IRC combined with the Matrix protocol bridge. This creates a very low threshold to ask questions (IRC on liberal.chat), while keeping the possibility to interact later even on the phone with the Element app.

Peter Scholtens

14 jun. 2021 09:24:29 Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com>:

> Maybe its time to quit IRC totally, its rarely used and no devs "hang
> out" there much now anyway.
> 
> Redirect the few questions to github discussions or a free discourse
> somewhere.  Do it in a browser and then smartphones and other
> platforms are possible. And with these previous conversations are
> visible without having to read "backlog" in a different place, so
> questioners can even see previous answers (gasp horror how modern!!!).
> 
> And one less password and broken autostart of hexchat.
> 
> Cheers
> Lex
> 
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 at 17:09, Dominic Hopf via Users
> <users at lists.geany.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I suggest to just head over to libera.chat with our channels as well. Just did that for example with #openrheinruhr two weeks ago or so.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Dominic
>> 
>> On Sun, Jun 13, 2021 at 11:55 PM Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 13.06.21 20:41, Frank Lanitz wrote:
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm sorry -- not much time lately …
>>>> A friend brought to my attention that there have been some unfunny
>>>> events at freenode-network where our chat is also hosted at the moment.
>>>> To be honest I did not yet follow this topic up and really lagging
>>>> details (Anyone can give up some details here?) -- I want to ask for the
>>>> future of the IRC chat? What do you think?
>>> 
>>> Xfce and Django projects (just picked those two based on personal
>>> preferences) moved to https://libera.chat:
>>> https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2021-June/037352.html
>>> 
>>> I guess this would be an option for us as well.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Enrico
>>> 
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