IRC network takeover

[Stephen Partington]

Mattermost might be an option vs matrix. I can easily host that.


On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 3:34 PM Matthew Crews via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> 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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