On Wed, 04 Jun 2025, Russ Allbery wrote: > Marc Haber <mh+debian-de...@zugschlus.de> writes: > > On Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 08:32:49AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> Yes? I refuse to use IRC because I find it annoying, and yet I seem to > >> put up with all of the rest of our peculiarities. :) > > > Would you use Matrix, XMPP or some of those modern chat systems? > > No, which, fair point, you were making a point in context about adopting > those new systems and I lost the context. Sorry about that; my message > wasn't very useful. > > Sadly I'm not sure there's a great option for real-time chat that both > follows our free software principles and would reach newcomers where they > probably are. The option that would maximize outreach is probably Discord, > which has obvious issues.
Ignoring the "where newcomers probably are" part, I wonder what people think of Zulip? https://zulip.com/ https://github.com/zulip/zulip/ There's also mattermost but it's open core and the company apparently made some not very nice moves by removing features from the community version. https://mattermost.com/download/ https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost Cheers, -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Raphaël Hertzog <hert...@debian.org> ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋ The Debian Handbook: https://debian-handbook.info/get/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ Debian Long Term Support: https://deb.li/LTS