Hi,
What I got from the recent survey¹ was that most people reading this
just like email and IRC, so possibly this is doomed to failure, but
there was reasonably strong showing for Telegram and Matrix so…
There's a BitFolk Telegram group at https://t.me/+hRAT7UOOJFc1MDE0
which anyone is welcome in.
I will make a Matrix room as well on the same basis. I have to say
though that I personally don't enjoy using Matrix very much and so
the majority of my personal casual waffling goes to either Fedi or
Telegram, and I do not see that changing unless Matrix becomes a
better product.
All (that goes for IRC and email too) subject to a reasonable code
of conduct that will have to be fleshed out at some point.
If they see no use, so be it. 😀
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi,
OggCamp '24 is in Manchester, UK on 12/13 October.
https://oggcamp.org/
I'll 99% be going, so hope to see some of you there!
Thanks,
Andy
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[And now with some copy-paste errors fixed]
Hi,
On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 01:32:17AM +0000, Andy Smith via BitFolk Users wrote:
> So, if you do actually engage in online chat for any projects or
> communities please would you fill in this short questionnaire to let
> us know about it?
>
> https://forms.gle/cYyP2QFZzpDWdJ9T6
Responses seem to have stopped now, so here's a summary.
There were 35 responses - thanks!
## Prefer
1. IRC: 15
2. Telegram: 9
3. Discord: 7
4. Matrix: 4
5. Slack: 3
6. Mattermost: 1
## It's OK
1. Slack: 16
2. IRC: 14
2. Telegram: 14
3. Discord: 11
4. Matrix: 9
5. Mattermost: 3
## Dislike
1. Discord: 15
2. Slack: 14
3. Matrix: 6
4. IRC: 5
5. Telegram: 4
6. Mattermost: 2
## Never used
1. Mattermost: 29
2. Matrix: 16
3. Telegram: 8
4. Discord: 2
4. Slack: 2
5. IRC: 1
Looking for the positives, if I award 1 point for "prefer" and half
a point for "it's ok" then:
## Arbitrary scores
1. IRC: 22
2. Telegram: 16
3. Discord: 12½
4. Slack: 11
5. Matrix: 8½
6. Mattermost: 2½
However, opinions seem quite polarised about some. e.g. if we also
deduct a point for "Dislike" then:
## Arbitrary scores including haters
1. IRC: 17
2. Telegram: 12
3. Matrix: 2½
4. Mattermost: ½
5. Discord: -2½
6. Slack: -3
I will take a little time to consider these results.
Thanks,
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
Hi,
This mail is about BitFolk's customer chat which is currently the
IRC channel #BitFolk on Libera, and maybe expanding it to other
chat platforms. If that doesn't interest you then you can safely
just ignore this email.
I realised recently that despite there being around 45 actual people
present in BitFolk's customer chat, for a while now it's been
basically silent.
I'm prepared to accept that it's become an idle zone, but if it's
the case that people are chatting elsewhere then I'd consider going
where the users are before giving up on it.
So, if you do actually engage in online chat for any projects or
communities please would you fill in this short questionnaire to let
us know about it?
https://forms.gle/cYyP2QFZzpDWdJ9T6
I've intentionally made it so that it doesn't capture any personal
details and requires no sign-in, so please don't abuse it by
submitting it multiple times. 😀 If it still bothers you that it's a
Google property then you can just email me your thoughts off-list.
I'm not planning to close down the IRC channel as I expect the
people who idle there do so just so that they can ask what is up if
they ever need to. There isn't any actual chat there though, and I
don't see that changing now.
I'm also not promising to set something up on whichever platform
comes out top (this is not a vote!). It would be very interesting to
me to find out where people are, though.
Thanks,
Andy
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https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
