# What about IRC (in relation to Matrix)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Project Discussions\ **Tags:** community, community-meeting, community-wg, irc\ **Created:** [June 3, 2024, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-about-irc-in-relation-to-matrix/6140 "2024-06-03T17:04:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![felixfontein](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/felixfontein/32/7530_2.png) [@felixfontein](https://forum.ansible.com/u/felixfontein)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-about-irc-in-relation-to-matrix/6140/2 "2024-06-03T17:15:33Z")
One possibility would be to switch from Libera.chat to [Open and Free Technology Community (OFTC)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OFTC), or at least _also_ have a room there, since there seems to be a working Matrix-OFTC bridge ([Bridged Networks - Matrix IRC Bridge](https://matrix-org.github.io/matrix-appservice-irc/latest/bridged_networks.html)). (First mentioned here: [Future of the weekly Ansible Community Meeting - #9 by felixfontein](http://forum.ansible.com/t/6067/9)) As @shertel pointed out below that post this again increases fragmentation of the community. But on the other hand we’d have a bridge back between IRC and Matrix. Maybe just having one channel on OFTC (instead of the pletora of channels/rooms that we have on Libera and Matrix) would already improve the situation, in particular for the community meeting (whose future has its own topic: [Future of the weekly Ansible Community Meeting](http://forum.ansible.com/t/6067)). What do others think about this? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.ansible.com/t/what-about-irc-in-relation-to-matrix/6140)._