I stand by http://matrix.org and http://vector.im as our future.

I think they're really solid, and solve exactly our problem

@dominicm: do you want to set up test accounts on them and invite people in to kick the tires?

@seancorfield: There's no accounts to be made. There is a #C03S1KBA2 channel on the http://matrix.org official server.

When it became "ours" I think we'd be best off running our own server.

That will be non-starter unless you can find a company to host it. Is your company volunteering?

The main http://matrix.org server runs on 4GB of RAM. I don't think think that it would be difficult to find a host. I think there is an instance somewhere set up by our resident sysop (He has shaggy for an avatar)

I tried to join #clojure - it said it wasn't a valid channel.

You'll need to do more education / evangelism here if you want folks to try vector / matrix :)

might be https://vector.im/beta/#/room/#clojure:matrix.org

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works for me

@seancorfield: you seem to be implying that just mentioning my favourite in passing isn't enough to create a mass switch!

http://whatthefuck.computer/blog/2015/11/01/on-the-balkinization-of-my-chat-communities/ This is the "oh, okay. We should use matrix" intro