Monday, May 4, 2020

Re: Switching Chat Services: From Slack to Matrix

Hi everybody,

in case someone already has a matrix account on a different homeserver (e.g. matrix.org) and has problems finding the gnuradio matrix rooms (like I had):
Check out the matrix community
+gnuradio:gnuradio.org

The public gnuradio matrix rooms are not yet discoverable (from other homeservers, so the homeserver url won't help you) but you can see them if you join the community. Be aware though that joining communities does not work on the Riot android app for me, but joining via webapp worked just fine. They will show up in the Android app as well afterwards.

If you just want to join the general gnuradio chat:
#gnuradio:gnuradio.org
Is the correct room name/alias.
(Source: https://twitter.com/noc0lour/status/1257429022079954952?s=19 )

If somebody was as confused as I was, I hope this clears it up a bit.

Cheers and see you in the matrix,
Jan




Am 4. Mai 2020 23:14:37 MESZ schrieb Derek Kozel <derek@bitstovolts.com>:
Update: A config error has broken the Register button on the main page. The Sign-in link works. I expect this to be fixed by 7 AM UTC.

You can directly go to registration with this URL: https://chat.gnuradio.org/#/register

Thanks for your understanding!

On 04/05/2020 19:32, Marcus Müller wrote:
Hello Martin, hi most communicative SDR community to ever chatter away,    in case you're trying to set up your own Matrix client: the homeserver  is gnuradio.matrix.ungleich.cloud .    Looking forward to seeing everyone!    Best regards,  Marcus    On 04.05.20 18:25, Martin Braun wrote:  
Hi all,    for a while now, we've been discussing what to do about our Slack chat  service. It was very clear that we needed to do something: Our free plan  only kept a very short history, the non-free plan was pricey, and Slack  itself came with a lot of baggage (mostly related to privacy issues, and  the fact that the chat logs, even though we we couldn't see them, were  hosted on a server we don't own).    With the upcoming virtual GRCon, we wanted to get our chat solution  sorted out pretty quickly, which is one reason why we made an effort to  speed up the process and push out a replacement service ASAP.The bottom  line is that we will be moving to a Matrix-based solution. Go to  https://chat.gnuradio.org to join our Matrix server.    On https://www.gnuradio.org/blog/2020-04-27-moving-to-the-matrix/, you  can find the full announcement, and how we came to the conclusion of  choosing Matrix, as well as some details of how we're set up.    A personal note from a community standpoint: We have received some  criticism about how we made this decision without much community  involvement. And yes, that's true, we could have done this better. The  root cause, I would wager a guess, was procrastinating on the decision  until we really needed to sort this out. I would like to ask everyone  who wants to participate in the GNU Radio chat to give it a shot, and  provide constructive feedback other than "can we have giphys".    All things considered, Matrix brings a lot to the table: We can host it  ourselves (meaning, we have control over chat logs and the data), it is  an open standard, and thus supports many different clients, including  web and mobile, which help support people's different preferences and  personal requirements.    Again, for more details check out the blog post.    Cheers!    Martin      
  


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