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Due to the diverse range of communities I work with, I currently wrangle with up to 10 group chat systems to communicate with various individuals across the country and the world. Each of these (from Skype, LINE, Discord, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Hangouts) are fully proprietary and have no provision for intercommunication. | Due to the diverse range of communities I work with, I currently wrangle with up to 10 group chat systems to communicate with various individuals across the country and the world. Each of these (from Skype, LINE, Discord, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, and Hangouts) are fully proprietary and have no provision for intercommunication. | ||
But what if there could be a modern, open source group chat (akin to Slack) that would stand on its own, allow self hosted servers, yet provide full integration and bridging to IRC and other group chat systems? That's what Matrix, and it's frontend Riot does. | |||
* | * Matrix is an open protocol for modern group chat where you can use self hosted servers, and have them interact with each other: like XMPP or IRC, but modernized. | ||
* | * Riot is a cross-platform frontend for Matrix that provides an example server and allows you to connect to your own: as well as bridge your channels. | ||
Effective use of these two systems will allow us to abandon proprietary Discord to run our own server, yet retain continuity with our IRC channel. | Effective use of these two systems will allow us to abandon proprietary Discord to run our own server, yet retain continuity with our IRC channel. | ||
=== Archival IRC Bot === | === Archival IRC Bot === | ||
Currently in semi-active development we are working with our own IRC bot, [[akabane|Akabane]] to aid in our archival tasks. | Currently in semi-active development we are working with our own IRC bot, [[akabane|Akabane]] to aid in our archival tasks. |