Hi all, last year (as in 2016/2017), we've had a couple discussions regarding the potential need for an XPUB chat room "à la slack" to communicate and share stuff as a complement to the email list. I think Max was interested to look into it, as the homebrew server club was working on an XMPP tutorial (and LURK had a running XMPP server already), but unfortunately there was no decent web client. One year later it's pretty much the same, XMPP has really good mobile and much improved desktop clients but not many usable web options. Sadly, without an easy entry point to XMPP, the protocol/ecosystem is not super easy to engage with. In the meantime, there has been more and more people discontent with slack's culture and the well known tactics of bait-and-switch into a a proprietary walled garden service. As a result, a couple free and open source alternative have emerged. One of these is rocket.chat, which can be used on their own servers via a subscription service, but it's also possible to run on it on your own server, and there is very active developer community. Long story short, there's now a rocket.chat server install on LURK, and an XPUB channel: https://talk.lurk.org/channel/XPUB Please join/try, let's see if that's useful? a. -- https://bleu255.com/~aymeric