Have you considered using ZNC or another IRC "bouncer"? It'll retain and
replay history for you so you can get offline messages and have a
consistent message history between computers and devices. Pretty easy to
install if you have a Linux server somewhere, and hardly uses any resources.
Cheers,
Andrew
On 5/19/21 2:02 PM, Mark Anderson wrote:
I think I favor option B. But I don't have to maintain it. I would
prefer not to go to something like slack, but one of the more modern
IRC replacements when I can at least read history is nice. So rocket
chat? Or gitter?
—Mark
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On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 1:58 PM Rainer Müller <rai...@macports.org
<mailto:rai...@macports.org>> wrote:
On 19/05/2021 15.43, Marius Schamschula wrote:
> It has come to my attention, on Twitter, that freenode.net
<http://freenode.net>
> <http://freenode.net <http://freenode.net>>, were MacPorts hosts
it’s IRC channels, is having
> some serious issues [1]. The admins have resigned and control
may now be
> in questionable hands.
Right, we need to take action and move away from Freenode. This also
opens a few opportunities for us on how to go forward.
a) Move #macports to Libera.Chat
While there are also other IRC networks, the new Libera.Chat
appears to
become the direct successor of Freenode. Many projects are moving
right now.
b) Declare RocketChat as official chat
We already have a RocketChat instance at chat.macports.org
<http://chat.macports.org>, which has
been running for a while in parallel and we already gathered a few
users. [1]
c) Evaluate further options
IRC is old, lacks modern features. Self-hosted RocketChat requires
regular maintenance. Matrix could be another federated alternative.
Rainer
[1] The RocketChat #general channel is supposed to be bridged to
the IRC
channel, but this is broken at the moment.
See https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62908
<https://trac.macports.org/ticket/62908>
