On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 10:11:29AM -0800, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
Matrix definitely has advantages over IRC, but I kind of feel like
it's
not gone far enough... the zulip threading seems like a step up over
that. (Of course I have not used zulip day to day either).
I'm interested to try it for sure. Ironically though, I'm not excited
about the "topics" feature as they've described it in their
"features"
slideshow:
Messages in Zulip retain their context even if they’re sent hours
after the conversation started .... Without topics, it’s hard to
catch up efficiently, and hard to participate in conversations that
started while you were away.
... because I really don't _want_ that from a real-time chat platform.
I don't need _another_ place to check an ever-growing backlog. It seems
like this is actually designed to replace _both_ real-time chat and
async messaging like an email list or web forum, and ... I'm not sure
I'm ready for that. :)
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Matthew Miller
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Fedora Project Leader