I'm adding chat to my site, and I'm writing it from scratch. Somebody stop me!

The anime is great by the way, way better than cloudflare checkbox - where can I hire her to protect my chat users?

I've been running a Prosody server for a month or so. Thus far a positive experience.

> IRCv3 is probably an interesting story but I don’t know anything about it right now; are there people out there trying to use it?

It's in use right now on Libera.

https://libera.chat

But if they don't care for IRC then v3 probably won't do much for them.

I looked into this recently too and ran into the same issues with Matrix. How the hell did they manage to make chat so complicated?

I found Zulip pretty interesting because it’s made a lot of smart UX decisions that let it double as a kind of inbox/task system and serve needs like customer support pretty well.

My main worry would actually be that even though I prefer its UX, the complexity and 2010s-style design would churn some first time users. If anybody has used it for engaging with external users I'd be very keen to learn how that went