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It makes me sad that people are reinventing the IRC and XMPP wheel, and doing it poorly. Want your own version of this, with a bit less effort, but free? 1. In
by mtogo 15y ago
It makes me sad that people are reinventing the IRC and XMPP wheel, and doing it poorly. Want your own version of this, with a bit less effort, but free?
1. Install an XMPP server
$ sudo apt-get install prosody
2. Install a web frontent
There are dozens. Here's one for example: http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/
3. Congratulations, you just saved yourself $199.
- sad 15y agoDon't be sad. Competition and innovation are good things. XMPP and IRC aren't perfect solutions. I haven't seen this app in action so I can't comment on the "doing it poorly" part, but can you elaborate on that? What is poor about the implementation?
- mgkimsal 15y agoUmmm... I just tried the 'candy' demo - there's no options for file sharing from the candy interface. Maybe there are in others, but I'd have to go test/try out there - this one says it does it already.
- pstadler 15y agoYou could easily write a plugin which enables file sharing.