@djsumdog @popey @thrrgilag ty for this one. If I get adventurous I may try this. Anyone remember when “trillion” was the chat solution for this problem?
@popey a hot topic in recent months, the situation really needs a clever name and cleverer solution! Maybe if #OpenPush could also/instead securely pipe all/filtered inbound chat notifications to your preferred chat/email channel for consideration? (ok, mobile device required?) then...well you still need to access/reply via that network...or do you??
@Bubu is this crazy talk?
@popey for me, I'm slowly moving everything over to Matrix and bridges and puppets. Isn't perfect. Right now that is all IRC, several Matrix rooms and a bridge to my makers pace community.
Their UI has seen a lot of improvement over the last year and I was happy that they seem to see a lot of the issues. They promised to invest in UX as part of their last funding round.
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It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!
@popey I often long for XFCE to offer a way to arbitrarily tab windows together, a la Fluxbox. That could make some of the clutter more tolerable.