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I'd like to know what instant chat tools HN folks favour for instant asynchronous communication.
I'm leaning against setting up an IRC server simply because graphical notifications would be nice. I would also prefer something open source, and possibly PHP based as I'd like to extend it and tie into our existing systems.
- It "just works" on every platform, including my phone.
- It's great for group chat and one-on-one.
- If someone @mentions me while I'm away or offline, it will send me an email and/or pop-up on my phone just like any other notification (all of this is configurable).
- You can use HubBot with it and it has GitHub integration.
- You can use it over XMPP if you need to.
I never thought I'd pay for a chat product given all of the free options out there, but it is just so good that I can't help but recommend it to everyone.
HipChat ( https://www.hipchat.com/ ) - It "just works" on every platform, including my phone. - It's great for group chat and one-on-one. - If someone @mentions me while I'm away or offline, it will send me an email and/or pop-up on my phone just like any other notification (all of this is configurable). - You can use HubBot with it and it has GitHub integration. - You can use it over XMPP if you need to. I never tho…
We do all of our CI notifications and deployments with a bot in a builds channel.
With that said, Grove is going away and it doesn't look like there's a polished hosted alternative, so we're torn between setting up and managing our own internal system (which dollars per month will cost us more, once you put a dollar value on ops time) and trying to find something which will do what we want.
PHP must have an XMPP library, python and ruby do, if not.