* H.Merijn Brand <linux@tux.freedom.nl> [06-01-21 14:56]:
On Fri, 28 May 2021 03:42:54 +0200, Robert Kaiser <kairo@kairo.at> wrote:
And even without SSO, Matrix is definitely "easier for people to connect than navigating the baroque maze of antispam measures that have been attached on top of IRC over time" IMHO - even more so as you can e.g. have a home server that requires SSO but is federated so people can even log into another server without SSO and then join rooms on yours, like Mozilla did. (That said, Mozilla isn't actually operating that instance themselves but pay Element to do that for them.)
Whatever client (don't want a bikeshed) required for whatever protocol
Note that moving from IRC to whatever might gain new people, but for sure also will chase people away. I've seen the move from IRC to Slack and Mattermost and several other and *NONE* (IMHO) were improvements over IRC. IRC make me have a simple neverending log in which I can search fast. All the "modern" stuff like Teams, Slack, Mattermost and Matrix have "enhanced" GUI's that just bloat the information being shared.
IRC is extremely simple: it is text and text only (Unicode enables some smileys etc, but at least it has no shit like stickers and animated gif's like Telegram and friends.
When moving away from IRC (for whatever reason) you will take away a valuable source of contact with the user base.
My 2¢
KaiRo
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