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Talker group chat changes pricing, unlimited chatters for free

39 points by jrom 16y ago

scsmith 16y ago
I got introduced to talker app a while back while working with the guys from Teambox. I'm based in the UK while they're all over (Spain, US, UK). I didn't really see the point at first and figured Skype/IRC would be better but the more I used it the more I never stopped going on about how cool it was. I'm a little surprised but super excited that it's now free!
excsm 16y ago
Same here. I had tried out campfire but wasn't overwhelmed with it. I love the extensibility of Talker. Almost every other day I'm writing a plugin (https://github.com/saimonmoore/talker-plugins https://github.com/saimonmoore/talker-plugins) in javascript to enhance my chatting with my team members.
vramosp 16y ago
We used Campfire at Masterbranch until we discovered Talker. We're keeping our old account ($6 a month) just because of the private rooms.
evan_ 16y ago
Nice but why the restriction on keeping logs? Surely it can't be a disk space concern, text is nothing. If my team is going to use a chat app I want to be able to reference the logs at a later date.
- cmer 16y ago
  Because they need to make money somewhere, I assume. Totally fair.
- jrom 16y ago
  Well we thought IRC doesn't offer logs by default and it's fine, we offer them for a week. You can get unlimited logs with the $15/mo plan, so if you want to use it for business, you can.
gry 16y ago
We've been using Talker with our team in Minsk. It's been fantastic, some things, like JavaScript plugins are ingenious. Cobbled together a plugin to auto-link FOO-1234 to our JIRA installation. Plus, multi-line pasting creates an EtherPad session. plugin.onMessageInsertion = function(talkerEvent){ $('td.message').replace(/(FOO-\d*)/gi, '<a href="https://foo.onjira.com/browse/+$1.toUpperCase()+ target="_blank">'+'$1'.toUpperCase()+'</a>'); $('span.msg').replace(/(FOO-\d*)/gi, '<a href="https://foo.onjira.com/browse/+$1.toUpperCase()+ target="_blank">'+'$1'.toUpperCase()+'</a>'); } It's a fantastic, fantastic collab tool.

39 points by jrom 16y ago

I got introduced to talker app a while back while working with the guys from Teambox. I'm based in the UK while they're all over (Spain, US, UK). I didn't really see the point at first and figured Skype/IRC would be better but the more I used it the more I never stopped going on about how cool it was. I'm a little surprised but super excited that it's now free!

excsm 16y ago

Same here. I had tried out campfire but wasn't overwhelmed with it. I love the extensibility of Talker. Almost every other day I'm writing a plugin (https://github.com/saimonmoore/talker-plugins https://github.com/saimonmoore/talker-plugins) in javascript to enhance my chatting with my team members.

vramosp 16y ago

We used Campfire at Masterbranch until we discovered Talker. We're keeping our old account ($6 a month) just because of the private rooms.

evan_ 16y ago

Nice but why the restriction on keeping logs? Surely it can't be a disk space concern, text is nothing. If my team is going to use a chat app I want to be able to reference the logs at a later date.

cmer 16y ago
Because they need to make money somewhere, I assume. Totally fair.
jrom 16y ago
Well we thought IRC doesn't offer logs by default and it's fine, we offer them for a week. You can get unlimited logs with the $15/mo plan, so if you want to use it for business, you can.

gry 16y ago

We've been using Talker with our team in Minsk. It's been fantastic, some things, like JavaScript plugins are ingenious. Cobbled together a plugin to auto-link FOO-1234 to our JIRA installation. Plus, multi-line pasting creates an EtherPad session. plugin.onMessageInsertion = function(talkerEvent){ $('td.message').replace(/(FOO-\d*)/gi, '<a href="https://foo.onjira.com/browse/+$1.toUpperCase()+ target="_blank">'+'$1'.toUpperCase()+'</a>'); $('span.msg').replace(/(FOO-\d*)/gi, '<a href="https://foo.onjira.com/browse/+$1.toUpperCase()+ target="_blank">'+'$1'.toUpperCase()+'</a>'); } It's a fantastic, fantastic collab tool.