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Author: der.hans via PLUG-discuss
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To: Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss
CC: der.hans, Eric Oyen
Subject: Re: IRC network takeover
Am 20. May, 2021 schwätzte Eric Oyen via PLUG-discuss so:

moin moin Eric,

Thanks for the hosting offer. I'd rather we don't host chat ourselves.

Community hosting for some test instances could be useful.

ciao,

der.hans

> Hmmm, someone find out what hardware is needed to host it, and help me to get it and I can host from my business class circuit here.
>
> Hell, with a bit of help, I can probably even run it as a VMware instance on a machine I have sitting here doing nothing.
>
> -Eric
> From the central offices of the Technomage Guild, Server provisioning dept.
>
>
>> On May 20, 2021, at 3:26 PM, Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> -Matt
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