Re: Gitter Service ends Feb 6th

út 17. 1. 2023 v 12:01 odesílatel Matthias Evering <me@evering.eu> napsal:

> Am 17.01.2023, 11:34 Uhr, schrieb Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com>:
>
> > The Gitter service is ending on 6th Feb
> >
> >
> https://blog.gitter.im/2023/01/16/gitter-is-going-fully-native-matrix-in-feb-2023/
>
> they say we need a logout/login but functionality will stay around if I
> understand right.
>
> > 1. What about the history
>
> see https://github.com/solid-contrib/gitter-solid/issues/34
>
> I wonder if the various history links will sill work, and for how long
>
> > 2. New chat area
> >Gitter is encouraging a transition to the Matrix/Element service.
>
> does that mean we need a Matrix account or anything ?
>
> Perhaps we could start a single room, say, on Mattias' solidweb which is a
> running grass roots solid server.
>
> I will participate in these efforts if the community wants.
>
> > We would need to circulate an agreed upon URL for this to work.
>
> we can make a dedicated pod for that purpose and freely choose any URL.
> it would look like `https://chatpod.solidweb.org/public/container`
> <https://chatpod.solidweb.org/public/container>


Thank you!

Perhaps just "chat" instead of "chatpod" -- chat.solidweb.org looks like
quite an attractive URI

A question arises as to what to do about chat that grows in history over
time.  Do we already have a solution to this in mashlib?


>
>
> > It could be beneficial to consider using Solid for chat, though based on
> > the current low volume of chat on gitter it may not be a major concern.
>
> > Thoughts ?
>
> let's try to prepare best for feb. 6th. I have sympathy for eating own
> dogfood.
>
> Matthias
> --
> Matthias Evering (@ewingson)
>
>