Bridge topics to Matrix for reaching a wider audience

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Continuing the discussion from Design team: would you like posts here sent to Matrix?:

This sounds like it could be applicable to a wider group of posts.

Posts in Ask Fedora might be interesting to bridge to #fedor:fedoraproject.org for a wider audience. Of course, that depends on how replies to these posts are handled.

There’s probably more examples to be thought of. But I’ve already deviated enough from the original question.

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Yes, absolutely! Any team who would like this set up for your channel or channels, just let me know.

I’m hesitant to send all of Ask to the main #fedora channel — I think it would drown out conversation. But we could make a dedicated channel, or even a set of channels for common tags.

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Yes, absolutely! Any team who would like this set up for your channel
or channels, just let me know.

I wouldn’t mind having badges-team bridged to
#badges:fedoraproject.org. The volume is small enough to make it trial.

I’ll bring that up in tomorrow’s meeting and get back to you after.

I’m hesitant to send all of Ask to the main #fedora channel — I
think it would drown out conversation. But we could make a dedicated
channel, or even a set of channels for common tags.

Yeah, all of it is probably too much. But only topic starters wouldn’t
work either. That way Matrix/IRC users don’t know if someone already
replied on Discourse.

Maybe some well defined tag, that could be set by moderators if they
need additional input? I’m thinking out loud here. I’m not very active
on Ask, so I don’t have a good idea of the kind of questions that pop up
there.

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Big +1 for echoing Discourse topics to Matrix. I guess it is a question of whether we want new topics only or also replies.

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It depends on how these messages are formatted/marked as originating
from Discourse and how replies on Matrix/IRC would be handled. Do they
bounce back to Discourse as a comment? If so, how’s the formatting of
these replies.

Maybe, just take a deep dive and set it to all. Learn and adjust from
there. Just my $0.02.

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@mattdm whenever you have time to set this up, I have a low priority draft post, that would lend itself to try this out.

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Take a look at https://matrix.to/#/#news:fedoraproject.org, where it’s already set up.

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That looks neat. It’s clear that the message is coming from a bot, not a
user. :+1: Since the news channel/room, for me at least, is read only,
I’m still curious what happens when one replies to one of those messages.

I assume it stays in the channel/room, not altering the topic on Discussion.