Re: [PLUG] XKCD: Team Chat

[Andrew Libby <andrew.libby@gmail.com>]

Someone should really make a self-hosted modern chat app like slack or
hipchat.  Slack itself is based on electron (http://electron.atom.io/)
which is essentially chrome for desktop apps.  I imagine XMPP/ IRC could
be used under the hood.  Set your own AWS keys and a bucket for
attachments. Wish I had the development chops to take on something like
that.  I bet it'd be popular.

I did just find Rocket.chat.

https://rocket.chat/features

Looks pretty impressive and you can self host which is yuge.

Andy




On 1/6/17 4:30 PM, Eric Lucas wrote:
> We formerly used IRC and work but switched to slack.  Zero config - just
> load the client, sign in, and go.  Also, it handles things like emojis
> and inline photos.
> 
> I prefer IRC but I don't have any strong negatives against slack (other
> than, as you point out, privacy.)
> 
> Eric
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Greg Helledy <gregsonh@gra-inc.com
> <mailto:gregsonh@gra-inc.com>> wrote:
> 
>     I read the comic, and it gave me a chuckle but also made me wonder
>     what Slack was and why I hadn't heard of it.  So I did a quick
>     search and poked around on their website for a couple of minutes.
> 
>     Basically, it's a way to get you to turn over all your company's
>     internal communications and data to the people behind the Slack site?
> 
>     (Privacy issues aside:  is it that great?  How is it better than
>     some combination of chat + email?)
> 
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