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Currently, we have two different developer chats on Zulip and Matrix. This means, that new devs will be confused about which channel to join and experienced devs have to actively look around in both channels for questions to answer. This seems like a really inefficient system, so we should at least decide on one official communication channel.

More discussion at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1964543/we-should-rethink-how-the-communitcation-channels-for-piefed-devs-work

Personally I find Matrix to be a pain in the ass and prefer Zulip. But it hasn't managed to attract as many users as Matrix has despite pushing it quite hard for months. Also PieFed development has started to bleed over into PieFed naturally, such as !piefed_css@piefed.social and !piefed_plugins@piefed.social. So we're in an awkward place at the moment.

31% A PieFed community, only
3% chat.piefed.social - Zulip
10% Matrix channel
18% PieFed + Zulip
21% PieFed + Matrix
13% PieFed + Zulip + Matrix
3% Zulip + Matrix (what we have now)
3% Zulip
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[–] 1 point 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I personally like and recommend Matrix. A significant amount of Fediverse developers are on matrix, including the Fediverse developer network.

Piefed could run their own of they wish.

Encrypted comma for private chats. Threads can be used for tracking specific issues.

There are multiple bots that can be run. RSS not is built in. Us folks doing Owncast streaming have made bots to announce when someone goes live.

Matrix is seeing significant growth in EU.

It's become quite easy to install and get set up.

There's already a good piefed presence in matrix.

Multiple clients in the works already. Commet seems like one folks really enjoy.

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