On 2021-05-27 01:35:21+0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Fri, May 21 2021, Felipe Contreras wrote: > > > Jeff King wrote: > >> Of course there's value in coordinating. Everybody _can_ hang out on > >> their favorite venues and eventually talk to each other, but it's much > >> easier if everybody agrees where to go. :) > > > > I don't think it works that way. > > > > I "everybody" agrees to move to Discord, many old-timers won't. Same > > with Gitter. And if most people were on IRC, many youngsters wouldn't > > come. > > > > There's a limit to how many chat applications you are willing juggle, > > and adding one more just to chat with git developers is something many > > people won't do. > > In the case of IRC though there's many IRC-to-X gateways that allow you > to somewhat have your cake and eat it too, e.g. there's one for > discord[1]. > > I haven't tried it, but I use another channel that has an > irc-to-Telegram (the app) gateway[2]. It works quite well. Aside from > the Freenode v.s. Librechat question I wonder if there'd be interest in > having such a thing running for #git or #git-devel. FWIW, Matrix also runs a bridge for IRC. There're existing bridges for freenode and OFTC. And, a new bridge for libera is WIP. > > 1. https://github.com/reactiflux/discord-irc > 2. https://github.com/FruitieX/teleirc -- Danh
