Proposal: Use xmpp as our primary and recommended chat option
Pirate Praveen
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Matrix and XMPP are both good options by Free Software, self hostable, federated standards. But matrix federation has many practical implementation problems and sometimes messages take hours or even a few days at times to deliver across servers. Additionally xmpp is lighter on server resources and gives better privacy of userid in public groups by default. Another example, Disroot.org moved from matrix to xmpp completely. Thoughts?
Ravi Dwivedi
Sun 20 Mar 2022 2:30PM
I have tested this method with LibreOffice India rooms and it works reliably as of now.
Pirate Praveen
Sun 20 Mar 2022 3:55PM
We already have old room linked to irc on oftc network
Ravi Dwivedi Mon 28 Mar 2022 3:00PM
The new room addresses are here https://fsci.in/#join-us
Pirate Praveen Fri 22 Apr 2022 10:34AM
Some people have reported problems connecting to oftc via irc.cheogram.com as the bridge is exceeding connection limits. I propose we bridge to pirateirc.net where matrix to irc bridge is run at diasp.in and has a direct connection and better limits. Then xmpp users will be able to connect to pirateirc. Additionally pirateirc has history playback by default so people can even connect to irc directly without needing to run an extra bouncer.
Pirate Praveen · Sun 20 Mar 2022 5:50PM
You can connect to old matrix room from xmpp using https://join.jabber.network/#%23fsci%25irc.oftc.net@irc.cheogram.com?join