IRC network takeover

[der.hans]

Am 20. May, 2021 schwätzte Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss so:

> On 5/19/21 12:57 PM, der.hans via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>
>> Do we want to move to Matrix or other FLOSS chat?
>
> I for one think this is a good time to move to Matrix. Its a FLOSS
> solution, supports a lot of modern features that people expect (like
> historical chat logging, E2EE, rich text support, chat channels),
> decentralized, self-hostable, portable, supports bridging to IRC and
> Telegram, and clients for it are about as widely available as IRC.
>
> For all the pros of IRC, one of the major cons is that there is no
> archive function, which makes it poorly suited for anything except
> real-time communication.

We don't archive the channel. It's not really something we've needed.

> Having said that, I'm not an expect at hosting a Matrix instance, and I
> don't know what kind of hardware is needed for it.

They host a domain instance we can use.

ciao,

der.hans

> -Matt
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