On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 03:10:11PM +0100, Philipp Stanner wrote:
Hey,
have you guys already heard of Matrix? https://matrix.org/blog/home/
It's some sort of modern IRC, using JSON to format messages. It's more modern than IRC. Features are:
- Source code formatting and highlighting in messages
- multiple devices
- history + history synchronization between multiple devices
- possible E2C encryption
and many more. In theory it will be a decentralized protocol, but there aren't that many servers yet and actually only one working server-software
Many projects, especially tech-based ones like the Rust programming language already use the service.
Personally I think it's an enormous progress to IRC. I would give it a chance if I were you :)
P.
Ooh, bait, on a sunday afternoon with nothing better to do. I'll bite.
Matrix is not even 4 years old.
IRC has been good around for just over 3 decades. Many here have been using it for more than 2 already. Yes, 2 decades. 20 years.
Chat/IM protocols come and go, IRC remains.
After this, someone will come along to suggest that we should all switch to whatsapp.
Luc Verhaegen.