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The hacker(news)? community did not need to wait for such a lousy webapp technology to have chat working. IRC is good enough, though a bit old. SILC is another
by guyzmo 12y ago
The hacker(news)? community did not need to wait for such a lousy webapp technology to have chat working. IRC is good enough, though a bit old. SILC is another improved version of IRC. XMPP+MUC is yet another good alternative and can serve as backend for stupid webapps.
All of them are using protocols designed for chatting and none of them use web technologies, even though you can write a JS client for each of them.
In the end, please use the right tool for the right job. If there was downvotes here, I'd definitely downvote that post.
- comboy 12y agoCan we agree on some channel on Freenode? It would be great for things that are too small for their own post.
- wfn 12y ago#startups currently has >480 people, and iirc it's a kind of (totally) unofficial HN channel. At the very least the intersection of crowds is very high. #hackernews makes sense.. currently a whopping total of 10 people there. :)
- EGreg 12y agoI say we permanently join #hackernews and idle there if we want to gain any kind of momentum.