 Well that's #annoying #opensource chat server Rocket Chat decided to make their latest upgrade plain abusive. If you run your own, you are now *required* to enrole in a trial of their premium proprietary nonsense and it's likely the server is spying on it's admins and users. *great* Looks like #inkscape is going to have to move chat systems. There's just no way to regain trust in an upstream that is abusive. Not without forking away from the abusers. 6 comments
@doctormo one of my group uses Rocket OSS, do you have a source i can share with the admins? it's in the release notes for 6.5.0 : https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/releases/tag/6.5.0 where "access to the workspace will be restricted" should be read as "will be impossible". trying to login, for administrators, will look like https://imgur.com/IHNzAGE The automatic start of the trial of ee features was reported as https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/31149 when people remarked that it incurred a 25 user limit with it. This bug report also contains statements from RC founder with corporate speech about privacy, but not backing down a bit on the fact that this *forces* self-hosted to register, give statistics, and accept the privacy policy and rocket chat corp terms of service. Our fully self-hosted server now does "call home" from time to time to servers with names like "n07.svc.cloud.rocket.chat" (did not wireshark it) - no idea if it already did it before  |
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@doctormo Everyone else seems to be on Matrix these days