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> as it basically does what mIRC did for me over a decade ago When Atlassian finally pulled Hipchat last year I was tasked with finding the replacement. Turns
by bandrami 7y ago
> as it basically does what mIRC did for me over a decade ago
When Atlassian finally pulled Hipchat last year I was tasked with finding the replacement. Turns out the one that met everybody's needs best was a local IRCd and whatever desktop client for it people liked.
Some problems have been solved correctly for a while; chat is one of them.
- UI_at_80x24 7y agoI'm actually in the process of doing this right now. (Looking for a Slack replacement.) Which specific daemon did you settle on?
- syockit 7y agoI was about to ask the same. One of the things I badly needed was persistent logs. I googled around and found https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc https://github.com/davisonio/awesome-irc which lists bouncers that serves the purpose. Not really looking for replacement though (team is currently on Mattermost)
- bandrami 7y agoinspircd with a cron job to mail the logs daily to a pastebin for people who wanted to reference them later.
- phicoh 7y agoI'm curious, how does IRC handle history and multi-device sync? How does IRC handle end-to-end encryption in groups? How does IRC handle editing messages?
- bandrami 7y agoI asked users for a desired feature list, and none of those were mentioned.
- jacobsenscott 7y agoThat's kind of like saying nobody mentioned they wanted wheels for their car, so you got them cars without wheels. What's the problem?
- progval 7y ago> I'm curious, how does IRC handle history Servers can re-send history when a client join. At least InspIRCd supports this (though it's not enabled by default.)
- mavhc 7y agoQuassel. Blowfish normally. Press up arrow, retype message, or type *correction.
- rb808 7y agoPersonally I dont need that stuff. Encryption maybe, but if we can run inside our VPN we should be good.
- DagAgren 7y agoI am an old-time IRC user, but IRC is missing tons of features I use literally every single day in Slack. It does not have well-functioning and reliable file transfers. It does not keep history of discussions. It does not have media embedding. It is very far from a solution in 2019.
- vorpalhex 7y agoIf you have control of the entire IRC stack (the daemon, the bouncers, etc) you can work around a lot of those issues.. though at that rate, it's probably a lot less work to just host something like Riot..
- DagAgren 7y agoHow do you work around the lack of a kept history?
- bandrami 7y agoIn our case, we didn't. Kept history wasn't a feature people used or wanted. Stuff you were going to refer back to later was for email.
- DagAgren 7y agoAs I said, I use this every single day of the week. Not having it means it is not even close to a solution.
- t34543 7y agoLack of history is a feature, not a bug. If you want persistent storage of decisions/etc there are better options out there.
- DagAgren 7y agoYes, like Slack.