At one stage when there was an outage about a year ago, folks at work were scrambling around trying to get HipChat resurrected (which we'd been using prior to moving to Slack).
I had an ircd of some description installed, configured and ready for use in under 3 minutes, and started to get my team using it as a stop gap measure. Had that rolling long before either the outage was resolved, or the HipChat server was resurrected. People forget just how stupidly easy it is to set up IRC.
I had an ircd of some description installed, configured and ready for use in under 3 minutes, and started to get my team using it as a stop gap measure. Had that rolling long before either the outage was resolved, or the HipChat server was resurrected. People forget just how stupidly easy it is to set up IRC.