IRC network takeover

[Eric Oyen]

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 <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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