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> I'll take excellent SNR over the sort of focus on end user experience you're talking about

The kind of SNR that causes an attempted takeover? As IRC has depopulated it's been increasingly inhabited by a particular type of person and has a particular culture. That's fine, but ascribing some technical superiority to it because of your cultural preferences doesn't make sense. IRC attracts a certain type of user who persists despite its UX; it's not technologically superior. The rest of us who aren't in that culture go elsewhere, to a network that fulfills our needs. Like Matrix (or even XMPP for some).

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>The kind of SNR that causes an attempted takeover? As IRC has depopulated it's been increasingly inhabited by a particular type of person and has a particular culture.

If you mean anime subbers, 4channers, and the warez/pirate crowd , they've all moved to Discord or Telegram. The only ones left are the technically inclined folk who adopted the platform at its genesis (i.e. #c, #perl, etc.)

No I mean the technically inclined. Adding a layer of gatekeeping just means folks who are okay with that keeping make it across. IRC has a very particular culture.

You're being disingenuous. IRC has been right at the center of the vast majority of non-enterprise technical communities and especially opensource for the last 25 years.

Say what you will about culture but this is a fact and I don't see it changing. Slack and Teams are gimmicks at best. Matrix unusable for me, every single one of my peers and, apparently, the vast majority of said technical communities that keep their center of operations firmly entrenched in IRC.

We recently switched to use self-hosted Mattermost plus Matterbridge[1] to connect with IRC, Telegram, Discord, etc. There is also an amazing console client - Matterhorn[2].

[1] https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

[2] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn

Note that mattermost by default phones home to a spyware analytics service even when you selfhost it. The env vars for disabling it are hidden/undocumented.

Copy the diagnostics/securityalert env vars from here, as well as the sed lines:

https://github.com/caprover/one-click-apps/blob/master/publi...

Mattermost CEO here, thanks for the share out! We're big fans of Matterbridge and Matterhorn as well!

I hope the categories that are already available in the Web client will be available in the mobile [1] and Matterhorn [2] clients too.

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/issues/5387

[2] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn/issues/711

Weird. I contribute to a lot of open source projects.

Never once used IRC. Discord, Slack, Gitter but never IRC.

And love the idea of Slack being a gimmick.

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