I agree that separate services is horrible, but getting a relay between all three working has to be the best option. That allows people to use the service they prefer, this lowering the barrier to join.

Personally I prefer Discord on my phone, and XMPP on my laptop. I would love to be able to follow the same conversations on both.

Russ

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On 31 Aug 2019, at 11:41, Steven Maddox <s.maddox@lantizia.me.uk> wrote:
When a bot relay the conversations between all 3 then I feel that
mitigates the issue. 
 
The same approach is being used with the mailing lists as that can now
be access via web forum (HyperKitty) and shortly there will also be NNTP
access too. 
 
So essentially IRC and Mailing Lists are still the main basis of both
instant chat and posting-like chat, it's just that each of them will
have 2 additional ways of accessing them for convenience. 
 
Me personally I'll be sticking with IRC as I'm not really a fan of
Discord (but others are) and probably NNTP when that is up and running. 
 
Steven Maddox
Lantizia

On 31/08/2019 11:00, Jon Nihill wrote:
 I don't use any of them but I can't help thinking spreading a community
 with so few active members as staffslug over so many services/sites is a
 little premature. The current irc channel has a few people idling in
 there and to be honest I have no idea about the numbers you have in the
 other things you mentioned.
 
 I guess I'm suggesting you pick one form of chat and stick to it until
 you have enough members to populate others.
 
 
 On Sat, Aug 31, 2019 at 10:04 AM Steven Maddox <s.maddox@lantizia.me.uk
 <mailto:s.maddox@lantizia.me.uk>> wrote:
 
     Details are already on the site under Contact. 
 
     The IRC channel from before is still there, there now also a Discord
     channel (see the site for the link) and at some point there will be a an
     XMPP MUC room too.     
 
     When the XMPP bit is done we'll look into some kind of bot to sync up
     the chat logs between all 3 protocols. 
 
     Steven Maddox
     Lantizia
 
     On 31/08/2019 09:34, Russ Phillips wrote:
 It just occurred to me to ask, is there any interest or plans for IRC,
 XMPP, or similar for real time chat?

 Russ


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