IRC network takeover

[der.hans]

Am 20. May, 2021 schwätzte Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss so:

moin moin,

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

I've been wanting to play with Mattermost. Are there any public instances
we can test on?

ciao,

der.hans

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