GHC and the future of Freenode

[Sebastian Graf]

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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