Chat channel for cloudron app packaging

[ruihildt]

@marcusquinn I think it's worth keeping in mind the difference of context (work environment vs community environment).

[Lonkle]

If Cloudron had a Discord and a channel for app devs. That’d be pretty cool. But it could be for the whole community if you’d want to start it. I tried Matrix and it wasn’t great so I seriously wander if the community would benefit from a Discord channel.

[jdaviescoates]

Personally I think the best answer to this is to just re-open to new registrations the existing Cloudron Rocket.Chat instance at https://chat.cloudron.io/ (where there are already 668 users, but right now just 6 online, including me who only went there to check)

BUT to make it clear on the homepage that is NOT for official support, just for chat and peer support between the community.

It should be made clear that whilst @girish @nebulon may occasionally chime in and idle there, they shall not be expected to reply nor provide support there, even if mentioned, and the best way to get support is via the Forum.

I'm not a fan of Discord because it is proprietary (I don't really get why so many people use it - I think maybe just because it's popular in gaming?)

Edit: for those who prefer Matrix can probably bridge the two channels and keep everyone happy? Maybe even add IRC too!

[Lonkle]

@jdaviescoates I could even bridge discord. I think gamer's ppopularized it, but for me it's the amazing API and customizations...and custom emoji.

[robi]

There's no reason not to use the Rocket Chat instance since it's already used. Only thing we may need is an additional channel for #devtalk vs the regular #discussion

[jdaviescoates]

@robi said in Chat channel for cloudron app packaging:

There's no reason not to use the Rocket Chat instance since it's already used.

I agree. It's just that at the moment it is closed to new registrations.

[Lonkle]

I really tried Matrix and like it on the forums better. The only thing better would be a Discord. Or maybe this Rocket.Chat i hear so much about.

[Grienauer]

@nebulon where is this rocket.chat? I have not found any infos on any official "community" pages… am I missing something? thx!

[MooCloud_Matt]

@robi said in Chat channel for cloudron app packaging:

Rocket Chat

I'm working with one of our dev to understand why Rocketchat Federation doesn't work on Cloudron.

as soon as that is fix, then it should be a really good option.

[MooCloud_Matt]

@grienauer
chat.cloudron.io

[nebulon]

@grienauer we started out initially with a rocket.chat instance which is still alive and used mostly for internal communication though. Once we had this forum, we essentially wanted the community to move here, since the chat turned out to not be very helpful with issue and solution search-ability. Of course also no public indexing of the channels.