It should have been done a while ago, but the slidge chat room is moving from slidge@conference.nicoco.fr to support@rooms.slidge.im, dev@rooms.slidge.im, offtopic@rooms.slidge.im.

Leaving nicoco.fr

The historical room will stay open for a few months, but if you are interested in staying around (and you are more than welcome to do so ♥), please update your bookmarks. This is one more step towards moving slidge away from online spaces I personally own and move it to "organisations" that are meant to be managed collectively. Hopefully these organisations will grow into some sort of community governance at some point, if more and more people are interested in getting involved. We are not there yet as rooms.slidge.im is, for now, something I actually manage alone. We are getting there though, slowly, but surely.

Splitting the room

For a few months, we have been steadily over 100 participants in the slidge room, and it feels like there is just enough chat traffic that it started to make sense to split it into subrooms, mainly to split support discussions from dev ones.

In practive, to avoid flooding the room, deuill and I mostly discussed dev stuff in private, which is a bit counter-productive regarding our dream of having additional contributors hop in and try to make slidge gateways even more bug-free and feature-complete than they already are. If you are interested in writing some python (or go) to make slidge better and have fun, by all means please join the dev room.

Since most discussion in the historical slidge room have been about troubleshooting installation and configuration issues, the support room is sort-of its "real" successor. It has truly been wonderful to see users helping out each others, so let us please continue doing that.

Not a XEP-0503 space (yet)

Since a lot of people have asked: XEP-0503 is not implemented anywhere yet, so rooms.slidge.im is not in any way a "XEP-0503 space". But maybe it will be someday, if it turns out that the spec is not complete shit.

Talk to you in the rooms!