Feb 12, 2026 2:11:34 PM John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org>:
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What ever we decide if it ends up costing money Tim you should not
take that on yourself. Can we at least provide an optional way to
pitch in? A maybe a WLUG patreon?
I love this idea and will be happy to pitch in too.
On Feb 11, 2026, at 6:56 AM, Tim Keller via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
John's point that we are leaving people out of the loop because they're not in the signal chat
is a valid concern.
Since I'm not paying for meetup.. I'd be down to clown to run a DO droplet that hosted a
private *something* for us.
I do like the real-time nature of signal, I feel it has given wlug the "community" thing that
in the mailing lacks. For better or worse this feels like yelling into the ether instead of a
conversation.
We will definitely talk about this at the meeting tomorrow.
I've long talked about running a zulip server.. maybe that's an option?
Tim.
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 9:33 PM Tracie Winslow <traciewinslow7@gmail.com> wrote:
What about Mattermost?
"For a long time it seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was
always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished
business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. At last it dawned on me that these
obstacles were my life. This perspective has helped me to see there is no way to
happiness. Happiness is the way. So treasure every moment you have and remember that time
waits for no one."
- Souza
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026, 7:05 PM eroc1990 via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
I did. I've also witnessed these attacks first-hand on other spaces. It's only a
problem for public servers because anyone can join. If your space and rooms are
private, that attack vector closes.
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On Tuesday, 02/10/26 at 17:20 John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
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Did you read the article i posted? Part of the issue is CSAM being
pushed into matrix servers and the management was hard to make work.
But maybe that's gotten better and if we ran our own server it
wouldn't be a problem?
Something to talk about for sure on thursday. I'm not up on these
tools at all, but I do want to make sure that email chats and signal
chats are shared widely as possible.
And one of the choices I failed to list is:
- instant messages (signal)
- email threads.
Those are two aspects. When I got home sunday and found 130+ messages
in signal to catch up on, it was pretty funny. But did I really need
to read them all? Maybe. Did I enjoy it? Enventually once I read
them.
But I like the mailing list and how I don't need to be watching it
constantly, nor do I get dinged with notifications. Whcih is both
good and bad. LOL!
John
I feel like the obvious winner in this case would be Matrix. Synapse
can be a bit of a bear to set up, but you get E2EE in both 1:1 and
Rooms, things can be organized into Spaces and you're able to freely
join and leave any room or space that's irrelevant to
you. Administration isn't all that bad when you're running a Private
server, but it comes with costs in terms of the resources needed to
store and serve the various components of Matrix. Would be curious
if anyone has any proclivities toward another service with similar
offerings.
On Tuesday, February 10th, 2026 at 3:49 PM, John Stoffel via WLUG <wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
https://wlug.mailman3.com/hyperkitty/list/wlug@lists.wlug.org/message/XQDKNEXWP7FWIUTJEZFM7E7KANT5CMDG/
Hi all,
A bunch of us are also chatting on signal (look in the email archives
for a link to join!) and I feel like we're leaving the email forum
users behind.
And we need to keep the WLUG community working together and sharing
together, no matter what their systems or resources are.
I found this interesting article on replacing discord with something
new.
https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives/
And I thought we as a group show evaluate some of these options as
well. In order of requirements I think:
- needs to be open
- WLUG needs to control the data
- needs to have clients across a swath of systems.
- web based
- CLI / plain text based
- Apple/Android clients.
- searchable
- able to organize a bit into channels.
- announcements
- regular chat
- questions or howtos
Right now I enjoy the signal chat and how free form it is, but since I
can only read it on my phone because getting a CLI client working is a
pain... and I don't want to install the signal app on my work
laptop.
So what do people think?
John
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