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For me, it is the fact that most people connect with multiple devices, and want to have a smooth transition between them, and to be able to see history on all o

For me, it is the fact that most people connect with multiple devices, and want to have a smooth transition between them, and to be able to see history on all of them. There is no easy way of doing that with IRC, which kills it for me.

kuschku 9y ago
> There is no easy way of doing that with IRC, which kills it for me. Yes, there is! This is exactly what Quassel is made for. Just run the core anywhere (we’re looking into offering it hosted, too), connect with the web ui, the desktop client (Linux, Mac, Windows - uses Qt5, and is only a few megabytes, uses almost no RAM at all. A true native client), or the Android client. As many devices as you want under one account, a smooth transition from one to any other, shared history (just scroll up - all devices remember where the others left off, and you always see exactly the same on all of them). With some minor extra effort, you even get nice and fast fulltext search – this video is recorded on a 2$ OVH VPS, searching through 3 years and 6GB of logs in 65ms: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/quassel-rest-search.mp4 https://s3.kuschku.de/public/quassel-rest-search.mp4 All of this under GPL.
- CJefferson 9y ago
  I'm glad you are working on that, but "Just run the core anywhere (we’re looking into offering it hosted, too), connect with the web ui," really doesn't count as easy to use -- now everyone on my IRC channel needs to run a server which is is accessable to the internet, worry about security updates, both for the server and your software specifically. Whereas with slack, I just do "make account, login, done". Until it's as easy as slack, I can't pursade people I work with to move over.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    > now everyone on my IRC channel needs to run a server which is is accessable to the internet, worry about security updates, both for the server and your software specifically. Well, the beautiful thing about this is that you can run one quassel core, for dozens, hundreds, or potentially even thousands of users. LDAP login is also supported, and I might add later on automated connecting to a pre-configured network. You can probably imagine that this is very useful already.
    - kuschku 9y ago
      Disclaimer: I’m just a normal contributor, I don’t have any control over the Quassel project.

kuschku 9y ago

> There is no easy way of doing that with IRC, which kills it for me. Yes, there is! This is exactly what Quassel is made for. Just run the core anywhere (we’re looking into offering it hosted, too), connect with the web ui, the desktop client (Linux, Mac, Windows - uses Qt5, and is only a few megabytes, uses almost no RAM at all. A true native client), or the Android client. As many devices as you want under one account, a smooth transition from one to any other, shared history (just scroll up - all devices remember where the others left off, and you always see exactly the same on all of them). With some minor extra effort, you even get nice and fast fulltext search – this video is recorded on a 2$ OVH VPS, searching through 3 years and 6GB of logs in 65ms: https://s3.kuschku.de/public/quassel-rest-search.mp4 https://s3.kuschku.de/public/quassel-rest-search.mp4 All of this under GPL.

CJefferson 9y ago
I'm glad you are working on that, but "Just run the core anywhere (we’re looking into offering it hosted, too), connect with the web ui," really doesn't count as easy to use -- now everyone on my IRC channel needs to run a server which is is accessable to the internet, worry about security updates, both for the server and your software specifically. Whereas with slack, I just do "make account, login, done". Until it's as easy as slack, I can't pursade people I work with to move over.
- kuschku 9y ago
  > now everyone on my IRC channel needs to run a server which is is accessable to the internet, worry about security updates, both for the server and your software specifically. Well, the beautiful thing about this is that you can run one quassel core, for dozens, hundreds, or potentially even thousands of users. LDAP login is also supported, and I might add later on automated connecting to a pre-configured network. You can probably imagine that this is very useful already.
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Disclaimer: I’m just a normal contributor, I don’t have any control over the Quassel project.