Around fifteen months ago, we switched from IRC to self-hosted Matrix. It has been far from perfect, but better than IRC for our team.
Now that we know what we’re doing, and now that Element’s unread indicators aren’t in constant gaslighting mode, it’s actually pretty good (despite some recent rumblings about the encryption implementation, and the usual Other People’s Software concerns).
Avoiding Slack was a primary goal (for privacy reasons). I actually kind of hate being this type of right.
