As I linked to in a previous comment above, using riot as a matrix client to connect to the old IRC channel works better than any IRC client I’ve ever tediously configured. Perhaps we should disseminate the matrix link below where we also reference IRC or community discourse forum website:
I think we should also look into hosting a concise index of community links such as an organized list of active working groups, TSC members, the schedules for these working groups and TSC sessions, where the meeting notes can be found, what are contact points, e.g. what sub tag they subscribe to, or who to ping, etc. @gbiggs and I where talking about this not too long ago:
That being said, I’d still think it would be worthwhile migrating from freenode to matrix in order to really support all the features of a modern chat tool, like:
- hyperlinking to previous archived threads via public links
- allows github tickets to link back to prior context over chat
- Multimedia expansion
- get web previews of links for readability
- Security/authenticity:
Mozilla has also been investigating Matrix as a candidate replacement after retiring their old IRC server. Not sure about the current state of the migration as of late:
The ROS Security WG has been using it’s community under matrix.org to host a few rooms for about half a year now. Its helped us communicate/whiteboard on a number of issues, especially when an idea/question isn’t fully formed enough to post on discourse. It’s also a nice place to sync or onboard others on small/temporal tasks that don’t quite warrant their own resting space, like an entire github ticket.