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I wonder if anyone's ever considered a group chat + forum combined into one thing

Something where you can combine the ease of communication of Discord/Slack but the permanence of a phpBB all in one place. Would be cool if you could also take a conversation and just turn it into a forum post or something.

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@jbauer $past_job had a slack button that would take a slack thread so far and slap it into a discourse thread for further discussion, it was pretty neat

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@volpeon @jbauer We all know this is not gonna happen akko_sad Even if discord goes down the drain another service more shitty and proprietary as the last will take its place.

Its all about features and hype. And Open stuff often misses features and has no hype.
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@stefan @volpeon @jbauer Matrix was pretty close and yet they squandered that opportunity
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@mikoto @volpeon @jbauer Ye I do like Matrix for 1:1 chats its great. But the groups (from what I heard) leave a lot to be desired. Mod-Tools and stuff to differentiate themselves.

There is that Custom-Emote MSC that is open for literal years rn (great feature some clients took to themselves to implement)

And then there is that garbage-fire called synapse that even element.io knows is shit. But the developement of the new thing takes its precious time.
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@stefan @volpeon @jbauer the main thing that's held me back from running my own homeserver is how garbage synapse is

at least with xmpp you have two fairly decent options (prosody and ejabberd), but then you have to deal with subpar clients. They are slowly getting better though.
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@mikoto Well on the matrix side there is conduit which does look good. Though some stuff is still not a 100% supported with it. For my use and for rick its doing a good enough job. But we do run very small servers.
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@stefan huh, haven't really heard much about conduit, maybe I'll try that
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@mikoto just be aware there is stuff that might just not work lol.

I have some problems with the matrix.org server and encrypted DMs (but its really only them and I dunno if thats cause they blacklisted / banned my server lol)
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