Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2020 09:31:21 +0930 From: "O'Connor, Daniel" <darius@dons.net.au> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: Farhan Khan <farhan@farhan.codes>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Recognizing Matrix as an official channel Message-ID: <2C92B63D-1E05-46EE-A02C-49032C6E9CC1@dons.net.au> In-Reply-To: <b6a282b8-79e0-42d9-c662-f00d5876da53@grosbein.net> References: <r4i3f1onokd4lq5igh8705mt.1597640015532@email.lge.com> <0220573d-7844-4c0f-9cff-56c2a6f91500@www.fastmail.com> <b6a282b8-79e0-42d9-c662-f00d5876da53@grosbein.net>
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> On 18 Aug 2020, at 05:50, Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> wrote: >=20 > 17.08.2020 21:36, Farhan Khan wrote: >>=20 >> I am a long-time IRC user. I see that FreeBSD recognizes the EFnet = and FreeNode channels as official, as listed here: = https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels. While it continues to serve the = community, there are major limitations and I feel that it might be time = to migrate towards a replacement. >>=20 >> The "market" of communication going forward is clearly shifting = towards more feature-ful protocols, such as Slack, Discord or Gitter. = The only open-source and viable option in this class systems that I see = Matrix. There is an active FreeBSD channel located at = #FreeBSD:matrix.org, along with a few other BSD-related channels. >>=20 >> I propose making this an officially recognized channel for FreeBSD = communication and encouraging migration from IRC to Matrix. >=20 > What is Matrix's level of support for FreeBSD? > Is there native FreeBSD client? > Is there native FreeBSD server? The server is in ports - net/py-matrix-synapse A client is available also - net-im/nheko I've only run the server on FreeBSD but it worked well enough. -- Daniel O'Connor "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum
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