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I've created a Matrix room for GamingOnLinux: [https://riot.im/app/#/room/#gamingonlinux:matrix.org](https://riot.im/app/#/room/#gamingonlinux:matrix.org)
I've discovered Matrix and especially it's client, Riot, a few weeks ago, and I love it!
It's like Slack but better:
* Open source
* Decentralized
* Lots of 2-way bridges for other networks (such as Slack and IRC)
* Encrypted by default (except for public rooms)
The project and the community are still young, but very dynamic. Riot is only 3 months old but it's already very usable and pretty well designed.
I'm the administrator of the GoL room, but I'm really OK giving my privileges to anyone from the GoL website admins, just contact me.
As for the other solutions, AFAIK mumble is very in-game centric, so not really for open chats about gaming in general in the Linux community. And Discord is proprietary, I won't use it and I'm pretty sure a couple of the people on this website won't either.
I know, you could argue that I'm using Steam and that rejecting Discord is stupid at least, but I would answer that it's not because I tolerate one proprietary app that I have to tolerate all of them.
Edit: Bridge is setup, nice work Creak!
The IRC bridge goes both way, meaning that you can use IRC or Matrix (or both!) as you prefer.
For now, the only thing I've seen that works in Matrix but not in IRC is emojis, but since emojis are standardized Unicode character, I'd say that it's more of a problem of the IRC client (I hope IRC protocol handles Unicode...)