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Main problem with IRC is that it's not "always on" and I really need this feature. Sure you can use IRCCloud or SSH/Screen into a server, but they both cost mon

by sktrdie 11y ago

Main problem with IRC is that it's not "always on" and I really need this feature. Sure you can use IRCCloud or SSH/Screen into a server, but they both cost money while Slack is free.

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago
How is Slack free? You have to pay per user or apply for an exemption if you are a non-profit. IRCCloud is free by default and you only pay to unlock some extra features. https://slack.com/pricing https://slack.com/pricing https://www.irccloud.com/pricing https://www.irccloud.com/pricing
- sktrdie 11y ago
  Slack is free, we use it for free and it's always on. IRCCloud's free service disconnects after 2 hours of inactivity.
- nicksergeant 11y ago
  Slack is free without archival of messages and other "premium" features.
- saiko-chriskun 11y ago
  are you missing the very large, purple "free" tier?
p0nce 11y ago
You can setup IRC bouncers pretty easily.
rascul 11y ago
Check out Shout http://shout-irc.com/ http://shout-irc.com/
pmontra 11y ago
If you don't care losing the chat history after 10,000 messages, then Slack is free. 10k seems a big limit but it's only a few days away if you start integrating bots for GitHub, Bitbucket, Frontify etc. On a project a customer of mine disabled all those integrations because we couldn't go more than one week back into the past. Thery were not willing to pay Slack and we were losing track of decisions and accountability. When that happened we started writing down more things into Google Docs and the conversation shifted naturally from Slack to the comments of the docs. That had the (IMHO positive) side effect of reducing the time spent chatting about the project and of increasing the time spent to actually build stuff.
benwaffle 11y ago
You can use Quassel (http://quassel-irc.org/ http://quassel-irc.org/). It's like ZNC without the setup
- e12e 11y ago
  But then you loose messages when your quassel-core goes down (or loses its network access)?

by sktrdie 11y ago

Main problem with IRC is that it's not "always on" and I really need this feature. Sure you can use IRCCloud or SSH/Screen into a server, but they both cost money while Slack is free.

Sir_Cmpwn 11y ago

How is Slack free? You have to pay per user or apply for an exemption if you are a non-profit. IRCCloud is free by default and you only pay to unlock some extra features. https://slack.com/pricing https://slack.com/pricing https://www.irccloud.com/pricing https://www.irccloud.com/pricing

sktrdie 11y ago
Slack is free, we use it for free and it's always on. IRCCloud's free service disconnects after 2 hours of inactivity.
nicksergeant 11y ago
Slack is free without archival of messages and other "premium" features.
saiko-chriskun 11y ago
are you missing the very large, purple "free" tier?

p0nce 11y ago

You can setup IRC bouncers pretty easily.

rascul 11y ago

Check out Shout http://shout-irc.com/ http://shout-irc.com/

pmontra 11y ago

If you don't care losing the chat history after 10,000 messages, then Slack is free. 10k seems a big limit but it's only a few days away if you start integrating bots for GitHub, Bitbucket, Frontify etc. On a project a customer of mine disabled all those integrations because we couldn't go more than one week back into the past. Thery were not willing to pay Slack and we were losing track of decisions and accountability. When that happened we started writing down more things into Google Docs and the conversation shifted naturally from Slack to the comments of the docs. That had the (IMHO positive) side effect of reducing the time spent chatting about the project and of increasing the time spent to actually build stuff.

benwaffle 11y ago

You can use Quassel (http://quassel-irc.org/ http://quassel-irc.org/). It's like ZNC without the setup

e12e 11y ago
But then you loose messages when your quassel-core goes down (or loses its network access)?