On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 17:53 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 06:34:28PM +0100, Radka Gustavsson wrote: > > Let me start off: > > > > What's the reason why hosting your own server for a fairly uncommon > > chat protocol is better than continuing to use IRC? > > > > > > I too love dinosaurs... but I also work on 4 different computers and two mobile > > devices every day. Having to literally switch hardware to participate in IRC > > meetings is pain in the ass for some of our contributors (myself included.) > > I also use many different computers and have no such problem, because > I use screen + znc. (Same in fact for email: screen + mutt) That solves the problem for...you. Everyone else who needs it solved has to run their own bouncer. So we have several thousand people either maintaining an IRC bouncer, or living with the inconvenience. If we use a central server, only one server needs maintaining, and the problem is solved for everyone. The benefit seems pretty clear. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
