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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?) > > -- > Greg Helledy > GRA, Incorporated > P: +1 215-884-7500 <tel:%2B1%20215-884-7500> > F: +1 215-884-1385 <tel:%2B1%20215-884-1385> > www.gra.aero <http://www.gra.aero> > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- > http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > <http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce> > General Discussion -- > http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > <http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug> > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug