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> I spent a fair bit of time trying out many of the different chat systems out there for our tech community. Do any of them allow you to see a list of who's on
by JoshMnem 8y ago
> I spent a fair bit of time trying out many of the different chat systems out there for our tech community.
Do any of them allow you to see a list of who's online? That feature broke on Slack. I was told it's a known bug and in the issue queue, but it has already been months without a fix. There isn't a way to see who the regulars are, and the community looks somewhat dead without a way to see who is online.
- carwyn 8y agoYes, Discord, IRC, Riot/Matrix and Zulip for example make this very clear. Some of the others have it but not obvious. One thing that Spectrum has that's similar to forum software is a reputation system. Others have admin/moderator status but nothing further. Discord's mass concurrent voice chat is very impressive, but then they did hone this in 64 man WoW raids and the like. The new screen sharing they added a while back is nice too. Interesting implementation (you can pick which of the nine to watch at any given time). Video chat is the latest I've been looking into with Zoom starting to stand out above Hangouts and Skype, especially for one to very many and multiple speakers in turn type arrangements. Zulip can hook into Jitsi and Hangouts.
- kajmagnusmobile 8y agoYes, Talkyard has an online users list. It's a Q&A + HN like forum with chat hybrid oss software (both async and sync communication), https://www.talkyard.io https://www.talkyard.io, I'm developing it. But there's no mobile native app.