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Sounds good. I signed up. Campfire deserves to be superseded. Somehow I always thought Mibbit would be the one to do it, but I guess not.

by swombat 17y ago

kevindication 17y ago
I found mibbit painful to use. It was just easier to fire up x-chat. A winner here needs to be as easy as possible.
- axod 17y ago
  If you have time to list a few (Either here or email tech@mibbit.com) I'd be interested in what you found painful.
axod 17y ago
I think Mibbit has a few more users than Campfire ;) So in quite a lot of ways, I believe it has superseded Campfire. That said, still plenty more to be done... Nice to have more entrants to the 'webchat' space in any event :D PS. Latex support is cool! http://www.mibbit.com/tex.png http://www.mibbit.com/tex.png
- swombat 17y ago
  They're not the same users. Mibbit doesn't offer a persistent, private chatroom like Campfire does.
  - axod 17y ago
    Sure it does :/ you just setup a private channel, and put a bot in there to log it. I do get what you're saying though, and agreed. It's not "packaged" as that.
mrshoe 17y ago
We agree, and we think http://shoptalkapp.com http://shoptalkapp.com will be the one to do it. ;)
- swombat 17y ago
  FYI, another feature that I do find useful in Campfire is that there are clients out there which support growl. When multi-tasking on 9 virtual screens, growl support is pretty essential.
  - mrshoe 17y ago
    We're on it!
sachinag 17y ago
Why? (Remember, I'm a business guy, not a tech genius. It seems to work fine enough with the logs.)
- swombat 17y ago
  It's not a user-centric app. For example, since it charges for storage, it provides no way to quickly scan the logs and remove large attachments. It's missing a lot of features which would make it more useful, such as some sort of way to flag people. When you have a few people on a channel, if you want someone to get a specific message, it's not possible to ensure that with the current campfire.

Sounds good. I signed up. Campfire deserves to be superseded. Somehow I always thought Mibbit would be the one to do it, but I guess not.

by swombat 17y ago

Sounds good. I signed up. Campfire deserves to be superseded. Somehow I always thought Mibbit would be the one to do it, but I guess not.

kevindication 17y ago

I found mibbit painful to use. It was just easier to fire up x-chat. A winner here needs to be as easy as possible.

axod 17y ago
If you have time to list a few (Either here or email tech@mibbit.com) I'd be interested in what you found painful.

axod 17y ago

I think Mibbit has a few more users than Campfire ;) So in quite a lot of ways, I believe it has superseded Campfire. That said, still plenty more to be done... Nice to have more entrants to the 'webchat' space in any event :D PS. Latex support is cool! http://www.mibbit.com/tex.png http://www.mibbit.com/tex.png

swombat 17y ago
They're not the same users. Mibbit doesn't offer a persistent, private chatroom like Campfire does.
- axod 17y ago
  Sure it does :/ you just setup a private channel, and put a bot in there to log it. I do get what you're saying though, and agreed. It's not "packaged" as that.

mrshoe 17y ago

We agree, and we think http://shoptalkapp.com http://shoptalkapp.com will be the one to do it. ;)

swombat 17y ago
FYI, another feature that I do find useful in Campfire is that there are clients out there which support growl. When multi-tasking on 9 virtual screens, growl support is pretty essential.
- mrshoe 17y ago
  We're on it!

sachinag 17y ago

Why? (Remember, I'm a business guy, not a tech genius. It seems to work fine enough with the logs.)

swombat 17y ago
It's not a user-centric app. For example, since it charges for storage, it provides no way to quickly scan the logs and remove large attachments. It's missing a lot of features which would make it more useful, such as some sort of way to flag people. When you have a few people on a channel, if you want someone to get a specific message, it's not possible to ensure that with the current campfire.