We looked at it, at some point, but why bother when Google Chat came for free in Gsuite? It really depends on your needs. IRC can work just fine, and all the "

We looked at it, at some point, but why bother when Google Chat came for free in Gsuite? It really depends on your needs. IRC can work just fine, and all the "problems" become features. Decentralized everything, free choice of clients, extensible via bots, hosted or managed networks are available. If you wanted to build your own chat thing, maybe base it on XMPP instead.