Suggestion: Kerla Chatroom

[yamamushi]

Github is nice and all for posting issues, but perhaps this project would benefit from a community chatroom somewhere?

I know I'd like to dive in and hack at a system call or two, but the real-time collaboration a chatroom could provide would help immensely.

I'd prefer a Discord server myself, but I'm amicable to anything really. Whatever it is, I think it's something @nuta should start to avoid any conflicts of interest :-)

[nuta]

Sound good to me! I’ll create Discord server on Monday.

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[michalfita]

IMVHO Zulip would be better - I'm not a Discord fan.

[yamamushi]

IMVHO Zulip would be better - I'm not a Discord fan.

Except that the Rust Discord community is much larger than the Zulip one ;-) https://discord.gg/rust-lang

[Daasin]

and yeah ngl, even though I see why Discord Servers aren't universally loved as a platform for development. It certainly has its advantages compared to more traditional options:

• Communicating is often easier between devs with added Group DM's,

• Easier to community & interested people too, due to it allowing both announcements and a separate chat (Can even put people into roles that helps set how it works for different people)

• It has threads for specific topics that can be then archived or discard easily,

• Able to pull in more people who find it intuitive to use, it seems more customizable aswell (Not even getting into custom bots like logger yet) hosting on it can be as simple or elaborate as the person using it, wants it to be.

[Daasin]

The list goes on but im just making the point that it can be better in some ways

[nuta]

Personally I don't have strong preference on the chat platform. I'd like to hear good alternatives to Discord. For example, I think it would be better if chat history is crawlable from search engines so that everyone can find related conversation easily in the future.

[michalfita]

None of Discord, Zulip, Slack and similar publish chat logs. News groups and mail lists have that usually out of the box. On IRC channels quite often published logs regularly, not sure if anyone replicated this practice on Matrix.

The idea is noble. Maybe it's just matter of a bot publishing logs on the Web and submitting to crawlers.

[nuta]

Using a bot to export the chat log sounds good idea. I'll have a look at alternatives and will create a chat group later.

[nuta]

Created a Discord server here: https://discord.gg/6Pu4ujpp6h

Here's reasons why I choose Discord:

• It seems to already work well for open-source projects.
• It's easy to share pictures and videos: it's essential for trouble shooting.
• Provides useful features for conversation (threading, text formatting, ...).
• Has a good smartphone app.
• You can join the chat room from the web browser.

That said, let's avoid making decisions in Discord and keep using GitHub to discuss something: just use it as an ephemeral chat room.

[nuta]

I think this topic is now resolved. Thanks for the suggestion @yamamushi!