GHC and the future of Freenode
Sebastian Graf
sgraf1337 at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 16:19:31 UTC 2021
Re: memory usage: I get that people don't like bloated Electron clients
when they already run a browser instance, but fortunately, Element
doesn't need to be run as a standalone app (*).
Well, except when you want to search encrypted history. But then you're
out of luck with irccloud, too...
I run Element in a pinned Firefox tab, and according to its task manager
it reports 27.4MB, which is about the same for my WhatsApp tab. It's a
bit more than irccloud (about 20MB), but I also have quite a few chats
in that one tab. It's also quite a lot less than every individual MR
page of our GitLab instance (27-110MB), of which I have pinned about
5-10 at any time, so it really doesn't matter much.
Since the Matrix<->Libera.chat bridge works now, I have next to no
incentive to push for Matrix at the moment, although I still would
prefer it.
All arguments have been said, so I won't repeat them. It seems like this
discussion will go stale in time without anyone stepping up to force a
migration. Fine with me.
Sebastian
------ Originalnachricht ------
Von: "Jakub Zalewski" <jakzale at gmail.com>
An: "Janek Stolarek" <jwstolarek at gmail.com>; ghc-devs at haskell.org
Gesendet: 16.06.2021 17:02:28
Betreff: Re: GHC and the future of Freenode
>On Tue Jun 15, 2021 at 3:18 PM CEST, Janek Stolarek wrote:
>> Apparently, Freenode deleted all registered users and channels several
>> hours ago.
>
>I guess that should solve the problem of communities being split between
>Freenode and Libera.
>
>If I may add towards using IRC, even though it may seem archaic towards
>newcomers:
>
>- it allows them to join without registration (via web.libera.chat), and
>- it allows them to use a client of their choosing (I am not aware of
> any stable Matrix clients beside Element).
>
>From my own experience, Electron-based clients (Element included)
>consume unreasonable amounts of RAM: Element is consuming ~700MiB of
>RAM just to stay idle on my machine. To give a fair comparison, the tab
>for irccloud tends to consume ~300MiB.
>
>--
>Jakub
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