notcurses chat room

[joseluis]

I'm thinking about launching a Notcurses chat room that people
can come to with questions or whatnot. I would prefer to have a
single place. What would people recommend? Options I'm
considering (I'm happy to look beyond this list) would be:

• Matrix
• Discord
• IRC

Heh, I was also thinking I missed having some kind of live chat for quick questions and such.

I vote to use Discord all the way. It has the most penetration and least friction for new people, and for us too. A lot of people use it and it's like the standard now. I'm in a lot of discord groups and it's always been a breeze. Both the web client and desktop clients works super well.

[dankamongmen]

José Luis Cruz left as an exercise for the reader:

I vote to use Discord all the way. It has the most penetration and least friction for new people, and for us too. A lot of people use it and it's like the standard now. I'm in a lot of discord groups and it's always been a breeze. Both the web client and desktop clients works super well.

isn't discord the closed sources though? fedora went with matrix for this reason, if i recall. what if our chat room was just commits and a github listener that threw a notification onto your desktop mmmmmm

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[joseluis]

discord is closed source yes.

I have no experience with matrix, but we can try it first privately and see if it works.

what if our chat room was just commits and a github listener that threw a notification onto your desktop

I think that would be very cumbersome

[dankamongmen]

i've got a matrix room. there's surely a better link than this, but try https://app.element.io/#/room/!gShTphhdXbPEwMeIFB:matrix.org

[tomek-szczesny]

I think the current "de facto standard" chat service in open source community is libera.chat.