radical proposal: move IRC to Rocket.Chat

[Elvis Angelaccio]

On martedì 8 agosto 2017 18:16:17 CEST, Luigi Toscano wrote:
> On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 17:52:00 CEST Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> Like all sensible open source communities we use IRC lots for real
>> time communication essential to making low bandwidth decisions in a
>> reasonable timeframe as well as socialising.
>> 
>> 20 years ago IRC was cool but these days real-time communication in
>> the non-geek world long since moved other places such as WhatsApp, ...
>
> We have an alternative already working, which bridges IRC (freenode.net and 
> OFTC): matrix.org.
> I don't know how many times I should repeat this, but many 
> people are already 
> using successfully (I monitor few channels, for example).
>
> So -1 for moving to Rocket.Chat.

I also want to stress that using matrix.org requires literally zero changes 
to the current infrastructure (unlike the other chat apps).

Anyone can switch now: https://community.kde.org/Matrix

Riot.im works very well from smartphones. It should be mentioned that 
native desktop clients are still not 100% ready (Riot.im is the only one 
with proper end-to-end encryption), but for KDE-related public chats they 
are good enough (I use Quaternion).

Cheers,
Elvis