Wandering Adventure Party

@maswan I'm kind of surprised a fork hasn't popped up tbh. Anyway yeah thanks for the info?

@maswan oh interesting - I didn't discover this when looking into it - what're the limitations?

@KarlHeinzHasliP thanks! I came across it but put it under the Signal/Telegram/Threema bucket in that it's not really a community building platform

@bekopharm @philipdrobar I guess I should clarify. For me I'm totally fine paying for something (I've now paid for Threema to try it out!) but I want communities to be open and have minimal barriers of entry.

@esoteric_programmer love it, thanks. Will absolutely be getting to know draupnir

@zeank hadn't heard of it but will be checking it out!

@androcat awesome write up. Annoyed I didn't find it the first go-around

@Mehrad updated, I couldn't find it

@com yup! Big fan of discourse for when the conversation is less real-time.

@roguefoam IIRC free tier users also can't store full history, which makes Searchable Log Of All Company Knowledge a bit of a misnomer

@adamshostack honestly I probably should have! Thanks for the reminder, will tag it onto the end once I've had another tinker after 15 years of being away.

@paco oh right, let me edit. I couldn't find any mention of a web app when researching!

@chanakya honestly agreed - I don't think I'd ever recommend Matrix for actual company work. There's better solutions in this list for those kinds of users.

That's not to disparage Matrix. Different tools for different jobs.

@chanakya ah yup that explains it. The whole thing had the stench of "open source but not really open at all"

@darkuncle it's an interesting point for sure. I think the management of multiple channels (most of the time 10+) is quite key. That's kind of what separates these tools out from Signal, Telegram, Threema, etc.

@esoteric_programmer thanks a ton!

Yeah so that's fair on homeservers. I had to over-simplify for sure. It's more that the responsibility is bigger than some might expect - though as you say not quite as big as it might first seem.

For moderation - I've heard power levels to givee some of what I need, though without particularly good UX. It slightly feels like a bodge though and I haven't found solid docs on how to use them as you've described. Could you point me in the right direction?

@scott @CoMaps yeah for sure, I think if Zulip's conversation model fits with your needs it might be a great option! I'm fascinated by what they've done and I think if I had more time with it I'd be able to develop the mental model needed to use it.

I'm probably going to consider it in situations where Discourse might have been an option - it feels like an awesome forum/chat fusion for project support and discussion.

@philipdrobar good point on Stoat. I think it's more that I worry stoat will collapse under its own weight, as it seems to be going for the discord model of them hosting the majority of users (rather than federation or just server interop).

@philipdrobar ah I forgot it's paid too with no free tier, that also makes it kind of a hard no unfortunately for me, tho I'm sure it might work for others

@philipdrobar to me Threema is more of a Signal competitor, I hadn't really considered it in the context of community building. I should really give it a try though so that opinion is more informed! Do you use it?