by Luc Saffre · in Developers

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• 6 years, 5 months ago by Luc Saffre about #3530 (Chat using XMPP or Matrix?) : I don't believe (any more) that we want to bring instant messaging into Lino. We will always chat alternatively in Hangouts, Facebook or wherever. The thing to keep in mind is that these channels are like chatting on the phone or the street: they are ephemeric and won't stay. If you want something t...
• 6 years, 5 months ago by Luc Saffre about #3530 (Chat using XMPP or Matrix?) : Estonian government has set up a Rocket Chat server for its citizens. Should we have a look at it? But it seems RocketChat is actually one name for two very different things: the Enterprise and Community editions are separate code bases. Not funny. [url rocket.chat/2020/03/28/moving-to-a-single-cod...
• 6 years, 5 months ago by Luc Saffre about #3530 (Chat using XMPP or Matrix?) : Sleeping. Before starting on this we should actually switch to some free IM solution.
• 6 years, 7 months ago by Luc Saffre about #3530 (Chat using XMPP or Matrix?) : When using Matrix, we would be able to use any compliant chat app (probably [url about.riot.im/ Riot]) and wouldn't have to write one ourselves.
• 6 years, 7 months ago by Luc Saffre about #3530 (Chat using XMPP or Matrix?) : Yes, we assume the matrix server is a self hosted irc style chat system. And yes, a deciding factor is whether we can integrate html style chats and linking things like #2000 or @hamza
• 6 years, 7 months ago by Luc Saffre about #3530 (Chat using XMPP or Matrix?) : Or more precisely Matrix, a successor of XMPP. [url matrix.org/] [url matrix.org/docs/guides/introduction] [url modular.im/about] Maybe we should consider the idea of connecting Lino to a Matrix server instead of storing chat messages ourselves.