[Qgis-psc] #qgis on Freenode

[Richard Duivenvoorde]

On 5/29/21 12:49 AM, Tim Sutton wrote:
> Hi
> 
> From my recollection of when we did that with Gitter, the bridged messages look very spammy with lots of extra text around each message. It would be nice to see an example of what the bridged message will look like in telegram before we go ahead and do that. Also occasionally we need to block a user in Telegram and it would be good to know if we can similarly block bridged users, otherwise I would be -1 for adding the bridge.
> 
> I just want to point out that as of just now we have 1310 users in the Telegram group. I doubt we could get them all to migrate over to something else so although I share your preference for a free chat platform, I prefer to take a pragmatic approach and not try to splinter the chat offering for the sake of something we care about and they don't. Maybe make a poll on the telegram to see how many would be willing to shift over...?

I think we should leave Telegram for now, it is really working great for general community speak (during Open Days and other).

I'm not sure if bridging/channeling all communication (via bridges) to each other is needed (though the Matrix/IRC bridge works VERY good, you almost cannot tell which protocol is used).

I got the feeling that IRC was used by more 'techy' people (though occasionally somebody new pops in, fires a question, wait 30s and then leaves because the question is not answered :-) ). So I'm good with several separate communication channels/rooms.

But Matrix could be a good alternative for IRC (to me). When working I get ping's from IRC and Matrix on my laptop.

Matrix IS also a good alternative for Telegram, but not yet installed by the 'average jane/joe', so maybe just wait... 
When we started with Telegram also everybody asked 'why not Whatsapp, that is what everybody has...'.

Things just need time? Not sure how Telegram will survive in the long term for free (without being paid via data-mining or advertisements), unless Microsoft, Google or Facebook acquires it...

The good thing about Matrix (and also Delta chat (https://delta.chat/en/)) is that it is distributed, so no 'single point of power/failure'...

Regards,

Richard Duivenvoorde