| 13 May 2025 |
 @saiko:knifepoint.net | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
Zulip has some objective issues like push not working on self-hosted servers oh interesting. I didn’t even know you could self-host it | 12:51:42 |
 K900 | You can | 12:51:51 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | I thought it was proprietary haha | 12:51:53 |
| K900 | For some definition of | 12:51:59 |
| K900 | I'm really not sure what you're trying to argue for here | 12:52:32 |
| K900 | The options are being considered | 12:52:36 |
| K900 | There are no significantly better ones that we're aware of | 12:52:42 |
| K900 | If there's something specific you have in mind, please just say it | 12:52:49 |
 adamcstephens | You already shot down IRC and proprietary solutions, but why are both of those inherently off the table? | 12:53:10 |
| adamcstephens | And is that a collective stance, or just your personal? | 12:53:43 |
 emily | at some point if the Matrix becomes sufficiently inaccessible to users we will cede user support to Discord by default | 12:54:26 |
| emily | whether we like it or not | 12:54:29 |
| K900 | IRC: moderation tools are basically non-existent, user experience is extremely variable depending on client | 12:54:33 |
| K900 | Proprietary solutions: does this just mean Discord? | 12:55:20 |
 truh | Or slack I guess | 12:55:45 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | In reply to @k900:0upti.me
IRC: moderation tools are basically non-existent, user experience is extremely variable depending on client oh, they are? always appeared to me that they were significantly better than Matrix | 12:56:19 |
| @saiko:knifepoint.net | especially then I agree Matrix is the best option | 12:56:35 |
| K900 | Definitely not at spec level | 12:56:58 |
| K900 | It is easier to build custom tools because IRC as a protocol is much simpler | 12:57:08 |
| K900 | But that also opens you up to the thousand clients problem | 12:57:22 |
| K900 | And IRC's baseline protocol being "one line of text" | 12:57:38 |
| emily | targeted spam attacks haven't really been an issue for the NixOS community over its life, though, right? I'm not saying the ideal solution wouldn't address them but i am not sure it is an immediate risk. | 12:57:52 |
| emily | like I think that in practice Zulip or Mattermost or Rocket.Chat or whatever would involve significantly less spam-fighting work even if the theoretical resistance against a precisely targeted attack would be lower. | 12:59:58 |
| K900 | We've had a few | 13:00:23 |
| K900 | Nothing of this scale | 13:00:35 |
 @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | @adam:robins.wtf for me a proprietary platform would be unacceptable and a serious hit to NixOS as a project in my opinion. Yes id prefer not having anything like Matrix over moving to Discord | 13:33:44 |
| @magic_rb:matrix.redalder.org | I think we're all open to other free software solutions, but IRC is seriously lacking as k900 has said already and I dont know about zulip but i trust it has been considered carefully | 13:34:54 |
| emily | I don't think there was super careful consideration of alternatives back when we moved from IRC to Matrix | 13:35:50 |
| emily | (and the landscape is very different to back then) | 13:35:58 |
| emily | Freenode melting down kind of forced the issue. | 13:36:03 |
