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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: The chat situation
From:       Ilmari Lauhakangas <ilmari.lauhakangas () libreoffice ! org>
Date:       2020-06-11 9:09:25
Message-ID: 693d6959-8d6f-ec80-5919-5e1c657e93fa () libreoffice ! org
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Kenny Duffus kirjoitti 11.6.2020 klo 11.44:
> On Thursday, 11 June 2020 08:19:21 BST Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
>> As an alternative, we can also "fix" IRC, meaning to improve its UX.
>>
>> For offering a KDE-hosted always-online experience to everyone, there
>> are modern solutions such as
>>
>> https://convos.chat/
>> https://thelounge.chat/
>> https://github.com/kiwiirc/kiwibnc
>>
>> Of these, KiwiBNC is a general purpose bouncer, which means you can
>> attach any mobile or desktop client to it. Account creation could be
>> tied to KDE Identity.
>>
> 
> Hi
> 
> KDE already offers a bouncer
> 
> https://community.kde.org/Sysadmin/BNC

Ok, that is nice, but KiwiBNC would remove the need for manual sysadmin 
work. Just thinking of a future that is up to modern expectations and 
without a setup UX requiring acrobatics. Even KiwiBNC still needs work 
to get rid of the need for command-line style setting up of SASL 
authentication.

Ilmari
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