[Qgis-psc] #qgis on Freenode

[Alexandre Neto]

I agree with Richard. We are probably talking about two different types of
users. Keeping telegram for general folks makes sense.

Meanwhile, we could bump from IRC to matrix, which is a bit more feature
rich and has decent app for mobile phones.

Alexandre Neto

A domingo, 30/05/2021, 11:07, Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>
escreveu:

> 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
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