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Not to be confused with the other Spectrum which is a real-time chat service and forum https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/ https://starcitizen.tools/Spectrum_(module)
Or the other Spectrum, formed from the merger of Time Warner Cable and Charter.
Let's just pretend we're confused.
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I'd like to read about how that goes! This is exactly what I want as well. I hear synapse requires a good amount of resources
That seems to be confirmed by admins running bigger servers such as disroot [0]. [0]: https://disroot.org/en/blog/matrix-closure
Disroot's announcement was before the switch.
The team even talked about it with one of the devs in the latest Matrix Live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ad3oqEo5leM
I didn't know Spectrum until today. It looks similar to Gitter. As I understand it, it means we now have at least three “slack-like”, well-backed, open-source, community-centered chats: - Gitter, now owned by GitLab; - Spectrum, now owned by GitHub; - Mattermost, independent, but fully integrated within GitLab. That's great to have credible alternatives to the proprietary behemots that are Slack, Discord and others,…
Sign up for Spectrum, go to 'sign in with github' as there's no option but to sign up through another system (FB, Google, or Twitter {sigh}), and then get the standard warning on the Authorise page:
"Not owned or operated by GitHub"
No doubt it'll be updated soon.
I really like Spectrum, I tried to get other people to join it but my "friends" are always stuck on Discord and Reddit. So finally, I only lurk it occasionally. However I don't understand why GitHub would acquire Spectrum: what do they have to win from this? Doesn't GitHub already have their own "forums" for communities per Git org? I tried to use these git forums/board ( https://github.com/orgs/lnug/teams/ ), sadly…
I don't know of any forums built into GitHub? They have issues and the wiki, but that's as much as I've ever used/heard of.
I spent a fair bit of time trying out many of the different chat systems out there for our tech community. In particular I looking for solutions that could do a half decent job of combining synchronous as well as asynchronous communication. The main benefit of implementations that manage to pull this off is being able to handle real-time chat but also make it easier to catch up with the conversation history if you've…
Do any of them allow you to see a list of who's online? That feature broke on Slack. I was told it's a known bug and in the issue queue, but it has already been months without a fix. There isn't a way to see who the regulars are, and the community looks somewhat dead without a way to see who is online.
This seems more like discourse, a forum than slack, chat? One thing that often happens in chat is general talk like weather. Would that go in a topic here too?
*joining Microsoft
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I had the same thought. For the sake of clarity, Spectrum is not a cable company unto itself. It is a brand owned by Time Warner Cable, a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction.
Somehow they managed to escape into even more dissatisfaction. At least Time Warner had different plans and didn't spam me several times a week with letters. Now they only have one $70 plan and are sending me a ton of mail with "deals" that aren't deals.
I didn't know Spectrum until today. It looks similar to Gitter. As I understand it, it means we now have at least three “slack-like”, well-backed, open-source, community-centered chats: - Gitter, now owned by GitLab; - Spectrum, now owned by GitHub; - Mattermost, independent, but fully integrated within GitLab. That's great to have credible alternatives to the proprietary behemots that are Slack, Discord and others,…
You should check on XMPP web solutions such as Movim https://movim.eu/ (P.S. I'm the author).
I had to read the title multiples times to truly believe what I was reading. « Microsoft is Acquiring Spectrum through GitHub ». Regardless of what the title says this is what my brain keeps reading. At first it seems like a nonsense, but after all it makes perfect sense. Microsoft must repay the inversement in GitHub, it was an expensive acquisition. Best way to do this ? Probably to bundle GitHub Enterprise with Sp…
I would theorize that GitHub enterprise itself may be deprecated with a migration path to "Azure DevOps" and "TFS" for hosted/internal source control respectively, with potentially better integration with public Github over time.
It may be interesting to see Spectrum integrated with MS Teams for those orgs that have internal teams, but need to interact externally, which is a story seriously lacking in Teams currently.
