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Sure but like, run Mattermost or Lync or an XMPP server with apps pre-built for it... don't build your own system. Just a waste of effort.
by buildzr 7y ago
Sure but like, run Mattermost or Lync or an XMPP server with apps pre-built for it... don't build your own system. Just a waste of effort.
- _eht 7y agoThey were a bunch of bored engineers... they weren’t thinking straight!
- oconnore 7y agoOk, so now those s/SWEs/operations/ folks had nothing better to do than reinvent the wheel.
- buildzr 7y agoIt takes 1 person a few percent of their time to manage something like that for internal use only. And you still get the gains of keeping secrets internal and cost savings on licensing costs which might actually pay for a good chunk of the effort in the case of running an existing service. Compare with a small development team for a significant percentage of their time to build a halfway decent chat tool. Miles of difference.
- greentrust 7y agoEx-uber engineer here. Uber's chat app is based on Mattermost, not built from scratch.
- johnnyfaehell 7y agoFrom my experience that kinda makes it worse because constantly people will say "X has this now this add that" and it's normally a case of "Well that's a ton of work to do because we did Y".
- jannes 7y agoDoes the fork stay current with upstream?