Bridge XMPP and IRC chat rooms #1

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2019-07-26T13:58:43Z

raucao commented

2019-07-26 13:58:43 +00:00

As we moved most of our chat to XMPP, but people are also still using IRC, I think it would be useful to bridge the two, so that it's possible to use either one, even though not ideal. (In fact, the main idea is to nudge people toward using XMPP when they see where most of the action is.)

As IRC doesn't have user accounts (except for nickserv), showing XMPP handles as nickname[xmpp] would be easy. But on the XMPP side, I guess we just need one bridge account and then we could show IRC users similar to how the bridge in the bisq channel does it (see attached screenshot). Or we could even do the same on both sides to make it a bit more secure.

As we moved most of our chat to XMPP, but people are also still using IRC, I think it would be useful to bridge the two, so that it's possible to use either one, even though not ideal. (In fact, the main idea is to nudge people toward using XMPP when they see where most of the action is.) As IRC doesn't have user accounts (except for nickserv), showing XMPP handles as `nickname[xmpp]` would be easy. But on the XMPP side, I guess we just need one bridge account and then we could show IRC users similar to how the bridge in the bisq channel does it (see attached screenshot). Or we could even do the same on both sides to make it a bit more secure.

Screenshot from 2019-07-26 15-53-39.png

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