We're looking for some new maintainers to join the org 👀
Our GTK port is currently minimally maintained, due mostly to our reliance on the Colloid theme as our base.
We'd ideally use a more flexible base, or write the theme from scratch. This means we'd welcome maintainers who have pre-existing knowledge with GTK theming.
@catppuccin#SourceHut is free software and has CI capabilities. Discussions in email have worked fine for decades, and still works for quite large projects.
As for real-time chat, #IRC still exists, and doesn't even need me to register an account to ask a question. There's plenty of good webclients to keep the barrier lower than Discord could ever do. Creating a bot for IRC is perhaps one of the easier tasks an aspiring programmer could work on. I have no clue what "forum channels" are supposed to be, but I'm quite certain it is not a required feature to develop software.
It seems incredibly bad faith to pretend these things don't exist or aren't known about.
#ICQ will turn off soon. I grew up with it’s weird aoooo and still know my quite long ID by heart. It was sensational, in contrast to the other, hacky (also cool) #IRC.
It was the first DM app I and everyone around me used and loved. #WhatsApp never came close.
In this AI hype we are living I think things like #Usenet, #Irc, etc will see a resurgence. I mean, everybody is trying to sell your data to AI, it's on you to find an avenue that's safe and private...
Here comes the #AI#generativeAI bullshit machine... @revk@bloor
Someone came into #IRC this evening leading to a confusing interaction until the cause was identified.
On a side note, I think I might be done with this internet and tech stuff. I wonder what manual work I can take up instead.
asked in the #irc channel and found out @ngircd does not allow interlinking of different ircds. which is a feature I thought would be quite normal to have for IRC, but it seems not.
ngIRCd at least is dead simple to set up. others don't make it that easy to get a small server running.
here's an interesting thing I found you can do with the #irc webportal The Lounge: you can easily add parameters to the link for it to drop someone nearly directly into a chat.
Ok without support for searching #matrix chat room history, messages are effectively ephemeral... like connecting to #irc without a bouncer 🤦🏼♂️
This is going to probably make a lot of people angry/restart IRC/matrix flamewars, but I feel like it has to be said if we are going to push #matrix as a more open alternative to the other walled chat gardens (proprietary or otherwise) out there. I, a IRC user for decades, want Matrix to succeed, but the UX needs to suck a lot less than it does today.
I do...
Was in late 1990's with mIRC and in a server that used to share music and videos. The very first song I downloaded was LOUDNESS' "Crazy Night" (in a horrible quality) and lasted like 6 hours downloading. LOL. #Internet#Mirc#IRC#Undernet#mIRC666#MP3#1990s
@adiz lol my bad - my tut client mixed up the threads.
The only alternative I see to Matrix right now is XMPP. I still run my own server. But it doesn’t come even close to compete with the number of available bridges (that’s actually the main thing I use Matrix for).
The only thing that can still compete with Matrix when it comes to bridges/integrations is still IRC+bitlbee. But that ecosystem is literally falling apart, it’s largely based on libpurple extensions that often haven’t been touched in years, and of course you can forget decent mobile-native clients.
Or maybe just run alternative servers to Synapse, but so far I’ve had a mixed experience with them - Conduit is definitely snappier, but I’ve had trouble to set up many of my bridges, which seem to be primarily designed for Synapse.
@fabio@adiz Are you following slidge development yet? For me it offers pretty much everything I might need in terms of bridges except for #IRC, but Biboumi already exists to take care of that one.
Slidge doesn't look very mature yet, but given some time it may be the thing we were missing. I wouldn't mind some cleaner #XMPP clients for desktop use either, but the existing options aren't all terrible at the least.
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