Make IRC great again?
Posted: 13 Aug 2019, 21:14
Kind of split of from here: https://forum.freegamedev.net/viewtopic.php?f=24&t=7781
Ok, so our Mattermost on https://chat.freegamedev.net is running quite nicely and has a few regular users. The actual uptake from FOSS game projects has been close to 0 though (as in requests to host a team server for them). Maybe we didn't advertise it enough... but I doubt it. But I think the separate chat bridge from IRC and Discord has been quite successful so far.
However, I am a bit annoyed by the artificial limitations and with the company behind Mattermost recently gotten a huge venture capital funding, it will probably get worse sooner or later when the investors want some profit.
Thus maybe back to plan A to have a nice IRC/XMPP hybrid. So far, I wasn't a fan of running the complex legacy setup of an IRC daemon and a bouncer etc. to have a semi usable setup. In addition, user accounts that work with most clients are another complex topic... but low and behold I wasn't aware of the seemingly awesome Oragono IRC server that wraps all this together in a nice Golang program: https://github.com/oragono/oragono
See also: https://ircv3.net/
Edit: https://www.irchelp.org/
So this is a bit of a brainstorm topic on how we could put some nice stuff together as a modern take on IRC chat. Suggestions are welcome.
Ok, so our Mattermost on https://chat.freegamedev.net is running quite nicely and has a few regular users. The actual uptake from FOSS game projects has been close to 0 though (as in requests to host a team server for them). Maybe we didn't advertise it enough... but I doubt it. But I think the separate chat bridge from IRC and Discord has been quite successful so far.
However, I am a bit annoyed by the artificial limitations and with the company behind Mattermost recently gotten a huge venture capital funding, it will probably get worse sooner or later when the investors want some profit.
Thus maybe back to plan A to have a nice IRC/XMPP hybrid. So far, I wasn't a fan of running the complex legacy setup of an IRC daemon and a bouncer etc. to have a semi usable setup. In addition, user accounts that work with most clients are another complex topic... but low and behold I wasn't aware of the seemingly awesome Oragono IRC server that wraps all this together in a nice Golang program: https://github.com/oragono/oragono
See also: https://ircv3.net/
Edit: https://www.irchelp.org/
So this is a bit of a brainstorm topic on how we could put some nice stuff together as a modern take on IRC chat. Suggestions are welcome.