Starting an Internet Service Provider

Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by woah on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:18PM (#13690057)

Might want to try Riot. It uses a protocol called Matrix, which is the successor to IRC. What this means is that you're not tied to them. Also the web, desktop, and mobile clients are pretty sweet.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by kiallmacinnes on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:09PM (#13691454)

Does Matrix really have the userbase in place to start calling it an IRC successor so definitively?

It may be aiming for it, and I do hope we see an open chat protocol succeed over all the Slacks and HipChats, but calling it the successor right now seems a little disingenuous!

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by yuvipanda on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:05AM (#13694743)

Don't see anything else around that fits that bill. They also have amazing IRC bridging - I have been using Matrix bridged into Freenode as my primary 'IRC Client' for almost a year now.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by kiallmacinnes on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:22AM (#13694953)

IRCv3?

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by mst on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:55PM (#13690819)

It's more aimed to be a successor to XMPP/SMS - hence the focus on federation and mobile friendliness.

Edit: Note this statement is based on my talking to people actually at matrix, on the dev team.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by kuschku on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:38AM (#13693993)

Calling Matrix the successor to IRC, when there's actually new IRC standards in development, is very misleading.

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