A bridged iced channel on IRC

I am a contributor to the Halloy IRC client, and would like to contribute changes upstream to iced in order to fix longstanding bugs.

However, iced only seems to have a discord community and this discourse. I do not have a discord account, so it is difficult for me to communicate directly with iced maintainers. Since there are several iced contributors who also contribute to the halloy IRC client, I was thinking that it would make sense to have an iced IRC channel.

Several mature IRC<->Discord bridges exist, and it seems very possible to set one up to bridge a channel of the discord with one on IRC.

Very cool that you want to contribute to iced directly to fix bugs!

I am not sure if it would help to open another platform to communicate. Why not using discord or discourse if they exist? GitHub Issues exist as well.

All bridges come at a cost (not every feature will work on both platforms). And discord already works good for most people. It is just a place where people already are.

What channels would you bridge to IRC? How would you deal with threads and forums?

Thanks for the response. I understand your concerns.

I’m happy to use discourse (hence this post :wink: ) but it doesn’t seem like a platform that operates well for real-time communication.

I would prefer to not create a discord account for a single open source project. I also do not believe that sharing information on this platform would be useful long-term, since discord is a closed ecosystem. I understand that this is where people are, and I do not want to change this. Instead, I thought a nice way to “open up” the discord would be to bridge to other platforms :slight_smile:

I think that bridging a single dev channel would be good.

Regarding features, many IRC features with discord parity have been added in the last few years, such as typing notifications and reactions. I’m aware of one such bridge which supports them if hosted on a suitable IRC network.

Regarding forums—is there any reason that this information is on discord instead of discourse/gh discussions? I don’t know if everyone who uses iced would like to make a discord account and join the iced discord (especially if they haven’t decided to use the library yet), so it might be nice to have forum information available in a more public forum.

In any case I’ll happily communicate using github and discourse for now.

These are the discord channels:


which one would you sync with IRC?

Where would you want the IRC be hosted?

Yeah. The reason discord is, as far as I know, used is because it is the most active if used. I found messages that mentioned that github discussions was used in the past but discord just won as a more active platform.

I thought that people do not need a discord account to see a discord server, only if the server requires it.

Besides, what are the advantages for IRC over discourse? I have never user IRC.