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Best IRC / Group Chat Service for Developers
Our dev team is looking at using a group chat service and is leaning towards a hosted solution. I wanted to push for an ejabberd server, as I've used openfire in the past and it has a lot of stability issues.
As far as the hosted services here is my take:
Campfire: very feature rich. incredibly proprietary. works well by iteself, but wont work with adium or limechat without shitty bridges, adapters, electrical tape.
Grove: Simple, good. Crap support. Going out of business. Next.
Flowdock: Google wave take 2. Next!
Do you agree / disagree? Are there any better alternatives?
- tom_m 14y agoIRC. Don't over complicate things it leads to confusion and less productivity. Plus, it's free.
- saiko-chriskun 14y agoHipchat has been my go-to.
- mrtrosen 14y agoGrove is actually not going out of business, the folks at RevSys (Jacob Kaplan-Moss / Frank Wiles) have taken it over and have improved both stability and support issues... You might want to give it a closer look.
- frankwiles 14y agoTo echo mrtrosen, Grove is here to stay: https://grove.io/blog/grove-here-stay https://grove.io/blog/grove-here-stay Happy to help in any way if you're having trouble with it.
- tectonic 14y agoWe're loving HipChat.