On Thursday, 19 November 2020 at 19:47, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > On 19.11.2020 19:31, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > > Just like IRC. > > No. If the FreeNode network goes down, all Fedora IRC chats will > disappear. Network consists of multiple servers. They'd all have to go down. At the time of this writing, there are 5 IPv4 and 3 IPv6 addresses under chat.freenode.net. > In Matrix if one server will stop working, users can easily switch to > another and continue chatting. Just like IRC. > All messages will be saved. Lack of server-side message persistence is a feature of IRC. Granted, that might not be what many new users want. > Also users from the other Matrix servers (matrix.org or self-hosted) > can join without any registration. Federated network. I don't know how Matrix works exactly, but I doubt anyone can join without any authorization. That would be abused pretty quickly. Regards, Dominik -- Fedora https://getfedora.org | RPM Fusion http://rpmfusion.org There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles. -- from "Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan _______________________________________________ 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
