[bisq-network/proposals] [WIP] Migrate from Slack to Riot (#54)

[Chris Beams]

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This is a WIP proposal in the sense that it's incomplete and needs a proper owner to take it forward. I wanted to put this placeholder here, though, to make it clear that a number of us would be interested to see a proper proposal for migrating from Slack to Riot (or possibly another platform).

This has been coming for a while, mainly because Slack's business model is incompatible with our needs. It is too expensive to justify paying for it, given how many members we have in our Slack workspace, and while we remain on the free product, our content and conversations regularly disappear, getting 'held hostage' by Slack until we do pay (which again will be never at the current price point).

The issue came to a head this month, however, with the impersonation of @ManfredKarrer by a scammer. Manfred wrote about this in more detail at https://github.com/bisq-network/roles/issues/23#issuecomment-434557552. Whatever platform we move to next will need to have a better security model for user identities than this!

A number of things will need to be addressed in this proposal, including but not limited to:

 - Where the instance should be hosted. On the main matrix.org home server, or on a home server run by a contributor? (I imagine the answer will be the latter, but I don't know enough about it to weigh in)
 - Is it possible to start on matrix.org and then migrate to a dedicated home server, just to try it out in a lightweight way?
 - Feature gap analysis. What do we use in Slack today that Matrix+Riot can't do / don't support?
 - Mobile app support. Is it any good?
 - Is there a way to bulk-invite the users of our existing Slack workspace to the new Riot workspace (not sure if we'd actually want to do that, but worth knowing the answer)
 - ...

Ideally, this will be put together by someone with experience using Matrix, Riot and our Slack instance, but anyone who can catch up on all that is welcome too.

As the current primary Slack Admin, I can help flesh out this proposal by answering questions, but it should be driven by someone else. I do not want to be the owner of any new infrastructure that we move to—this is a good opportunity to improve decentralization.

So if you'd like to own this, please say so in the comments, and follow up with a normal proposal write-up as you see fit.

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