> Team Chat That Doesn't Suck
IRC?
I use IRC for all sorts of purposes and audiences, there are tens ifnot hundreds of implementations that are being actively maintained, and it's been a standard for decades. How does that suck?
Edit: Oh they mention "Like IRC, but smarter", where smarter is a link. Let's see about that.
> Know who's seen any message.
Facebook does this. It more annoys me than anything else, but I can see the point. People could also simply acknowledge having read something, but again, ok I see the point.
> Edit messages after you've sent them.
Depends on the audience... On Skype (1 on 1 chat) it rocks, StackExchange's chat is generally not for 13-year-olds either so there it works as well, but in most team chats I wouldn't want this feature. Since it's aimed at Github users, I suppose this is a nice feature.
> Automatically embeds content like YouTube, pictures of cats and other stuff.
God no.
> Did we mention our smart notifications? @mentions. Batched notifications. Won't annoy you by making your phone beep on every message.
IRC, IRC and IRC.
> Awesome emotigifs.
You mean like MSN's Winks®? [1]
> Infinite chat history stored in the cloud.
trustworthiness--;
> Searchable too, naturally.
grep
> Oh, and a unified activity feed.
Hmm, what's that for? You mean like IRC clients' "last message" feature, or a way that stalks people even when your client is not running?
[1] http://img.uptodown.net/screen/windows/bigthumb/free-msn-win...
IRC?
I use IRC for all sorts of purposes and audiences, there are tens ifnot hundreds of implementations that are being actively maintained, and it's been a standard for decades. How does that suck?
Edit: Oh they mention "Like IRC, but smarter", where smarter is a link. Let's see about that.
> Know who's seen any message.
Facebook does this. It more annoys me than anything else, but I can see the point. People could also simply acknowledge having read something, but again, ok I see the point.
> Edit messages after you've sent them.
Depends on the audience... On Skype (1 on 1 chat) it rocks, StackExchange's chat is generally not for 13-year-olds either so there it works as well, but in most team chats I wouldn't want this feature. Since it's aimed at Github users, I suppose this is a nice feature.
> Automatically embeds content like YouTube, pictures of cats and other stuff.
God no.
> Did we mention our smart notifications? @mentions. Batched notifications. Won't annoy you by making your phone beep on every message.
IRC, IRC and IRC.
> Awesome emotigifs.
You mean like MSN's Winks®? [1]
> Infinite chat history stored in the cloud.
trustworthiness--;
> Searchable too, naturally.
grep
> Oh, and a unified activity feed.
Hmm, what's that for? You mean like IRC clients' "last message" feature, or a way that stalks people even when your client is not running?
[1] http://img.uptodown.net/screen/windows/bigthumb/free-msn-win...