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Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Post by brabel »

colesantiago wrote: post #2

Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.

I use it, from emacs, sometimes :D when you connect it actually tells you exactly how many users are on it, which seems to be quite a few:

** There are 73 users and 33193 invisible on 28 servers

** 39 operator(s) online

** 75 unknown connection(s)

** 22136 channels formed

** I have 1884 clients and 1 servers

** Current local users 1884, max 2958

** Current global users 33266, max 34731

** Highest connection count: 2959 (2958 clients) (25302 connections received) ** - platinum.libera.chat Message of the Day -

** - This server provided by NORDUnet/SUNET

** - Welcome to Libera Chat, the IRC network for

** - free & open-source software and peer directed projects.

Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Post by nerdponx »

colesantiago wrote: post #2

Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.

I was using it, but I kept getting kicked out of channels for idling too long. It wasn't a good experience, and I went back to just using IRC for IRC and Matrix for Matrix.

Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Post by jmbwell »

This seems like an inevitable progression of the de-portaling in July:

https://matrix.org/blog/2023/07/deportalling-libera-chat/

I wonder whether the July move prompted users to find other ways to connect to Libera.chat besides Matrix, killing usage of the bridge, leading us here.

Thanks to those involved for the efforts while they could be sustained!

Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Post by mlyle »

shadowgovt wrote: post #7
PostOnce wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wizards use IRC, and their apprentices use discord. Some of the most deeply technical people in the world use IRC. Being able to talk to them is a superpower.

IRC's biggest weakness is the protocol didn't transition cleanly to a mobile world. But apart from that, it's still as good as it always was.

IRC's biggest weakness is the lack of a consistent history mechanism and that you usually need to idle.

Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Post by mickael-kerjean »

colesantiago wrote: post #2

Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.

IRC is far from dead. My relatively unknown oss work has a channel on libera which is seeing ~100 message per month

Also Slack made the same move a couple years ago, first trying to appeal to IRC users at the beginning and then shut it all off when they had everyone else

Re: Shutting down the Matrix bridge to Libera chat

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Post by mort96 »

colesantiago wrote: post #2

Huh? Wasn't anybody using the Matrix bridge to Libera Chat IRC? Seems like IRC is really dead and only used by a very tiny small minority of people.

IRC is the best place to go to find developers of a whole host of open source projects. If you work with open source software, not using IRC really limits what you can do and who you can reach.
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