On Thu, May 27 2021 at 15:23:56 +0200, Michal Suchánek
It might be reasonable to ask if some more recent protocol like Matrix would be less prone to issues like this.
Indeed it is! The issue being that our instance still isn't ready, because our last try to get the authentication working with Bernhard didn't really succeed. I need to steal a SUSE IT employee for an afternoon to set it up one day (which may be hard, considering I assume they are busy)
With more modern protocols with native authentication it might be also easier for people to connect than navigating the baroque maze of antispam measures that have been attached on top of IRC over time.
That would be true, if it wasn't for Matrix clients not implementing SSO for the most part, which is kind of a requirement for us to use the existing login system. I know of 2 clients that implement it in the entire ecosystem. That would be easy to work around if they allowed for authenticating with authentication token provided by another client which is signed in, but sadly that's apparently also pretty rare...
Unfortunaltey, the openSUSE community over at Matrix does not look particularly thriving.
Huh? We are so active on matrix, have a look at the rooms listed in #space:opensuse.org space or old +rooms:opensuse.org community. Some rooms aren't really used much, since they are waiting for the irc bridge to happen, but the rooms that are used are used so much. LCP [Sasi] https://lcp.world