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Not having to manage a server, better history searching, better ux for less technical users, better user metadata, voice and video calling, and lots of other th

by lghh 9y ago

Not having to manage a server, better history searching, better ux for less technical users, better user metadata, voice and video calling, and lots of other things. I prefer IRC, but the benefits for a business should be pretty clear for anyone not extremely stuck on seeming like the cool IRC guy in the office.

wlesieutre 9y ago
Better multi-device support is huge. And history existing when you come back from not being connected. There are IRC solutions to this but IIRC it's something silly like a client that stays connected 24/7 to manage your user, then another client that connects to that client for your actual interface.
- kuschku 9y ago
  Yes, Quassel and IRCCloud are exactly such solutions. But that always has to happen in such distributed systems, Matrix has the same – your home node actually connects to the Matrix network, and you connect to that. Even on XMPP you end up running an XMPP server somewhere which connects via federation to the actual network, and your clients just connect to that server.
jjrh 9y ago
> Not having to manage a server Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control. It's especially relevant to companies outside the USA who might not want to have their data under US law. I wouldn't recommend IRC for office communication. XMPP is probably the better tool.
- lghh 9y ago
  Most companies operate on systems outside of their control. Windows, MacOS, mobile platforms, etc. Why limit it to discussions if that's a concern? If my company makes iOS applications, having to use MacOS and having to live with the possibility that everything that I type is being sent back to some server somewhere that way is just as bad, right?
- GordonS 9y ago
  > Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control Our legal department wouldn't let us use Slack, for exactly this reason

by lghh 9y ago

wlesieutre 9y ago

Better multi-device support is huge. And history existing when you come back from not being connected. There are IRC solutions to this but IIRC it's something silly like a client that stays connected 24/7 to manage your user, then another client that connects to that client for your actual interface.

kuschku 9y ago
Yes, Quassel and IRCCloud are exactly such solutions. But that always has to happen in such distributed systems, Matrix has the same – your home node actually connects to the Matrix network, and you connect to that. Even on XMPP you end up running an XMPP server somewhere which connects via federation to the actual network, and your clients just connect to that server.

jjrh 9y ago

> Not having to manage a server Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control. It's especially relevant to companies outside the USA who might not want to have their data under US law. I wouldn't recommend IRC for office communication. XMPP is probably the better tool.

lghh 9y ago
Most companies operate on systems outside of their control. Windows, MacOS, mobile platforms, etc. Why limit it to discussions if that's a concern? If my company makes iOS applications, having to use MacOS and having to live with the possibility that everything that I type is being sent back to some server somewhere that way is just as bad, right?
GordonS 9y ago
> Seems odd you would want to have you're internal company discussions hosted on a server outside your control Our legal department wouldn't let us use Slack, for exactly this reason