Recognizing Matrix as an official channel

[O'Connor, Daniel]

> On 18 Aug 2020, at 05:50, Eugene Grosbein <eugen at grosbein.net> wrote:
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> 17.08.2020 21:36, Farhan Khan wrote:
>> 
>> I am a long-time IRC user. I see that FreeBSD recognizes the EFnet and FreeNode channels as official, as listed here: https://wiki.freebsd.org/IRC/Channels. While it continues to serve the community, there are major limitations and I feel that it might be time to migrate towards a replacement.
>> 
>> The "market" of communication going forward is clearly shifting towards more feature-ful protocols, such as Slack, Discord or Gitter. The only open-source and viable option in this class systems that I see Matrix. There is an active FreeBSD channel located at #FreeBSD:matrix.org, along with a few other BSD-related channels.
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>> I propose making this an officially recognized channel for FreeBSD communication and encouraging migration from IRC to Matrix.
> 
> What is Matrix's level of support for FreeBSD?
> Is there native FreeBSD client?
> Is there native FreeBSD server?

The server is in ports - net/py-matrix-synapse
A client is available also - net-im/nheko

I've only run the server on FreeBSD but it worked well enough.

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Daniel O'Connor
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