<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 1:06 AM Carl Schwan <<a href="mailto:carl@carlschwan.eu">carl@carlschwan.eu</a>> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">On Monday, 22 May 2023 00:26:09 CEST argonel wrote:<br>
Hi,<br>
<br>
> I would argue that the low usage is in part due to lack of awareness.<br>
> It has a one-line mention on the "Internet Relay Chat" community wiki<br>
> page (which wasn't added until 2019) that doesn't even explain the<br>
> benefits of using it.<br>
> <br>
> IRC in combination with the BNC is much more suited to intermittent<br>
> usage than Matrix is, which currently obligates the user to "be<br>
> active" every 30 days, or risk (permanently!) losing access to the<br>
> entirety of the history of all of their joined channels (even the<br>
> parts for which they were present). The BNC happily buffers the text<br>
> until your client is able to reconnect. As an example, this allowed me<br>
> to read discussions that happened while I endured an extended power<br>
> outage, even when Matrix had decided that I was idle for "too long".<br>
<br>
The requirement of not being inactive for 30 days is not due to Matrix. Matrix <br>
doesn't care about your inactivity, but his is actually a Libera.chat policy, <br>
which was a requirement for libera.chat authorizing the bridging. This is the <br>
same issue with the fact that when you join a room, you can't see the chat <br>
history from before you joined the room.<br>
<br>
I understand that this requirement is due to some technical issues, as IRC <br>
doesn't support having so many connections open at the same time but it's a <br>
bit wrong to blame Matrix for that. I do wonder why BNC is not affected by this <br>
policy, but I suppose it's because there are way less users using IRC.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Historically we were impacted by connection limit issues, and required (at the time) Freenode staff to grant us an iline to allow us to exceed the normal connection limits.</div><div>We still had to throttle reconnections though - which made maintenance on the server that hosted the BNC very painful as it would take a good 2 hours or so for everyone to be reconnected.</div><div><br></div><div>I just had a look and the number of active users remains the same - 6.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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Cheers,<br>
Carl<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Ben </div></div></div>