Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by capableweb on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:20AM
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So strange they chose Slack and Discord when they had a perfectly fine IRC server (that now is deprecated). Instead of trying to improve IRC (either the protocol or any clients), they chose to go with closed-source hosted platforms. Damn shame.
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Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:33AM
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Mozilla chose Matrix, not Slack or Discord.
On the Mozilla branded website that this discussion is about: "Join us on Slack"
Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by steveklabnik on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:50AM
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I missed that! That is very strange, given their very public move to Matrix.
Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by freeopinion on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @07:17PM
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From any Matrix client try searching for Rust.
It pops right up for me with #/room/#rust:matrix.org at the top of the list.
Now try searching for Firefox.
There's a Russian Firefox community on Page 2 of the search results. There are beta and nightly groups on page 3. There's various other noise. But the maintainers have hidden the real Matrix room for Firefox so well, it doesn't even seem to be in the search index.
The choice was public. The move has not been public at all.
Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by SmallPeePeeMan on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:24AM
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> that now is deprecated
It is not deprecated. It is completely dead. Try connecting to irc.mozilla.org — you can’t because it’s permanently offline.
Re:Mozilla’s Fix-the-Internet Incubator
by capableweb on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @12:01PM
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Thanks for the correction! Sad to hear. Last time I checked, it was just "advisable" to not use it...