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Post by patcon »

carwyn wrote: post #38
Ericson2314 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes async threading is crucial, and I hope Matrix gets those. I do want to root for Matrix the most, but I think it also likely that adding federation after the fact is less likely than adding threading/async, so it's a rational not just sentimental thing to root for it.

I couldn't for the life of me understand how many people I spoke to didn't see the problem that lack of threading and async catch-up posed to linear chat systems as Slack gained in popularity. to me it felt like a forgetful, prettified IRC with awkward sign-up. Personally I find Zulip to have the nicest implementation of "topic zooming" as it still allows for a global linear view of all activity. Spectrum feels a bit…

heh agreed, but "a forgetful, prettified IRC" translated into normie-speak pre-Slack was "a forgetful, prettified what? Can you email me a link about it?" :)

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Post by excalibur »

porphyrogene wrote: post #27
jhokanson wrote: post #4

Apparently this has nothing to do with the cable company ...?

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.

Just in case anyone is still reading this thread, Spectrum was launched by Charter in 2014, two years before the TWC merger. It's just a gimmicky brand, similar to Xfinity, Fios, or Uverse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrum_(cable_service)

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by torarnv »

sandGorgon wrote: post #139
tibu wrote: post #118

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We're dropping riot because of the same reason right now. Sometimes messages do not pop up as push and that makes communication unreliable.

Are you facing this issue with chats on Riot itself or as a bridge to IRC ? Because as a slack replacement, riot is pretty cool (and there some redesign happening ). Most of the criticism is around its IRC bridging, which I agree is a little unstable. But let's face it - nobody else (slack et al) even tries.

Only with the IRC bridge, which is the primary use-case for me since so much of my existing community chats are on IRC still. IRCCloud also bridges to Slack, so I get both in the same (synced across devices) interface.

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by johnchristopher »

sandGorgon wrote: post #21
Arkanosis wrote: post #12

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,…

There is so riot.im which is built on top of Matrix.org (which was built for federation and E2E encryption). There are already IRC and Discord bridges to matrix. Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France. The SaaS version is modular.im (much cheaper than slack)

> Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France.

Is that a done thing ? I haven't heard about it in a while.

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