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Promote IRC channel for community discussion (chat.freenode.net/keybase seems populated?) #528

Open bgpugh opened 10 years ago

bgpugh commented 10 years ago

This bug is not about IRC nick proof of ownership, as that would be fairly impossible.

Looks like there are a few people sitting in freenet channel keybase, but I've no clue if this is an unrelated channel or if the devs have any interest in being available via IRC.

  1. Are the devs interested in realtime community discussion (IRC or the like)?
  2. If devs aren't interested, is freenet still a valuable thing for the community to gather with?
malgorithms commented 10 years ago

For promoting a specific IRC channel, I'd be happy doing that as long as it didn't detract from github as the place to handle issues. (Actually, I assume IRC could help on this front, as it could serve as a pre-filter of people who just want to talk about it, and those who have bugs/suggestions/etc., and it could also remind people of the place to report issues.)

So, we're happy for these discussions to exist. I can't speak for @maxtaco , but I should say that personally I'm unlikely to be in an IRC channel, since I feel I'm pretty reachable elsewhere and spread thin on Keybase discussions.

Related, it's also been proposed we suggest a StackOverflow channel (what's the word for it?) for people to share support with each other.

Maybe people can propose on this issue exactly what channel IRC we should be promoting...

zQueal commented 10 years ago

I think they call them communities within the StackExchange platform.

Other than that, I can personally attest to IRC being a pretty effective buffer to keep things on topic. Live community 'support' can really help keep things on track.

craighurley commented 10 years ago

+1 for an channel on freenode

zeroXten commented 10 years ago

+1 from me too. If #keybase is registered for something else, #keybase.io could work too.

xychix commented 9 years ago

and. is there a populated channel now? I've got some issues that aren't specific enough to make a issue for but could use some help on thinking trough it.

zeroXten commented 9 years ago

There are currently 16 people in #keybase on freenode.

bgpugh commented 9 years ago

That said, I'm not sure if @malgorithms or @maxtaco lurk there. It was populated when I filed the issue and is a pretty quiet channel ;-)

zQueal commented 9 years ago

Would be nice to see a self hosted ssh-chat. Takes nothing more than the knowledge to SSH into a server rather than learning IRC commands.

bgpugh commented 9 years ago

As a PSA there are generally ~10ish people lurking/idling in IRC at any given time. If you come in and ask for invites, we'll likely be more than happy to oblige but may not respond until a few hours later.

ndrut commented 8 years ago

+1 for freenode channel

2m commented 8 years ago

What about https://gitter.im/keybase ? Gitter is great for discussion around github repos and organizations.

hackervera commented 7 years ago

Any further development on this? We could just use keybase itself now that it has chat my nick is hodlr

starkythefox commented 7 years ago

As far as I saw, the few times my brain decided to run my IRC client and join in, I saw some developers on #keybase at Freenode.

InAnimaTe commented 7 years ago

I think some Keybase Owners/Admins should contact a Freenode admin and get the channel #keybase properly registered. Also, would be nice if the topic was set to help new people realize they're actually in the right place.

bgpugh commented 7 years ago

In addition to IRC, there's now also a matrix.org chat in case anyone prefers that network: #keybase:matrix.org or https://riot.im/app/#/room/#keybase:matrix.org

I'm happy to hand off admin/ownership to a keybase employee. I'd bridge in the IRC channel, but there's no chanops to authorize (see @InAnimaTe's comment above)