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It makes sense to have a fallback method set ahead of time, as others have mentioned. You won't have access to the things slack integrates with but at least yo

It makes sense to have a fallback method set ahead of time, as others have mentioned. You won't have access to the things slack integrates with but at least you can talk. I know some people use IRC as a low-dependency fallback channel.

jdenoy 7y ago
we use a mumble server as backup and parallel mean to discuss in the operations department... Sometimes talking all together using voice as if we were in the same office is much nicer than writing!
- LinuxBender 7y ago
  Mumble / murmur [1] is great. I set one up for a family member in minutes. Super easy to deploy. People should use their RC releases. They are solid, sound quality is great and it scales really well. A small to medium VM can handle thousands of people. [1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page
Twirrim 7y ago
At one stage when there was an outage about a year ago, folks at work were scrambling around trying to get HipChat resurrected (which we'd been using prior to moving to Slack). I had an ircd of some description installed, configured and ready for use in under 3 minutes, and started to get my team using it as a stop gap measure. Had that rolling long before either the outage was resolved, or the HipChat server was resurrected. People forget just how stupidly easy it is to set up IRC.
- cloverich 7y ago
  Do you have a recommended server / client? The last time I tried to use IRC (joining an existing chat) I actually had quite a bit of trouble, and ended up just giving up.
  - geggam 7y ago
    irssi for a client Freenode runs this one for a server. https://github.com/freenode/ircd-seven https://github.com/freenode/ircd-seven
  - notnull 7y ago
    Inspircd is pretty easy to set up (as a server). Hexchat is a great client, Weechat is great for a commandline client. If you have server access you can also set up Kiwi which is a webclient, making it easy for those with less tech prowess to connect.
  - LinuxBender 7y ago
    For ages, I ran unrealircd [1] and anope [2] services. One could put TheLounge [3] (web front end with redis) in front of it for persistence. Not as easy as inspire to set up, but rock solid and feature rich. [1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://www.unrealircd.org/ [2] - https://www.anope.org/ https://www.anope.org/ [3] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/

jdenoy 7y ago

we use a mumble server as backup and parallel mean to discuss in the operations department... Sometimes talking all together using voice as if we were in the same office is much nicer than writing!

LinuxBender 7y ago
Mumble / murmur [1] is great. I set one up for a family member in minutes. Super easy to deploy. People should use their RC releases. They are solid, sound quality is great and it scales really well. A small to medium VM can handle thousands of people. [1] - https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page https://wiki.mumble.info/wiki/Main_Page

Twirrim 7y ago

At one stage when there was an outage about a year ago, folks at work were scrambling around trying to get HipChat resurrected (which we'd been using prior to moving to Slack). I had an ircd of some description installed, configured and ready for use in under 3 minutes, and started to get my team using it as a stop gap measure. Had that rolling long before either the outage was resolved, or the HipChat server was resurrected. People forget just how stupidly easy it is to set up IRC.

cloverich 7y ago
Do you have a recommended server / client? The last time I tried to use IRC (joining an existing chat) I actually had quite a bit of trouble, and ended up just giving up.
- geggam 7y ago
  irssi for a client Freenode runs this one for a server. https://github.com/freenode/ircd-seven https://github.com/freenode/ircd-seven
- notnull 7y ago
  Inspircd is pretty easy to set up (as a server). Hexchat is a great client, Weechat is great for a commandline client. If you have server access you can also set up Kiwi which is a webclient, making it easy for those with less tech prowess to connect.
- LinuxBender 7y ago
  For ages, I ran unrealircd [1] and anope [2] services. One could put TheLounge [3] (web front end with redis) in front of it for persistence. Not as easy as inspire to set up, but rock solid and feature rich. [1] - https://www.unrealircd.org/ https://www.unrealircd.org/ [2] - https://www.anope.org/ https://www.anope.org/ [3] - https://thelounge.chat/ https://thelounge.chat/