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Holla - An open source Campfire

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Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#31
Good start but it's a bit single rainbow right now.

It will take a looong time to become as useful as Campfire because all of the hooks/apps for it that already exist. Opensource is nice but Holla needs some kind of passion-creating feature/vision that would attract a decent community of contributors.

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#32
post #31

Good start but it's a bit single rainbow right now. It will take a looong time to become as useful as Campfire because all of the hooks/apps for it that already exist. Opensource is nice but Holla needs some kind of passion-creating feature/vision that would attract a decent community of contributors.

Also, good to see TaskForce ppl trying completely new things. :-)

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#33
post #31

Good start but it's a bit single rainbow right now. It will take a looong time to become as useful as Campfire because all of the hooks/apps for it that already exist. Opensource is nice but Holla needs some kind of passion-creating feature/vision that would attract a decent community of contributors.

Oh, and I have to add that I'm a 'product guy'. I do see that the tech behind it is both cutting edge and solid but I tend to drift towards the market fit thoughts whenever I see new apps.

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#34
It looks neat, but it doesn't seem to work - I joined a room, invited a coworker, and we couldn't see each others messages. Upon reload, the old messages showed up, but e.g. picture previews didn't. Is this a load problem?

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#36
post #34

It looks neat, but it doesn't seem to work - I joined a room, invited a coworker, and we couldn't see each others messages. Upon reload, the old messages showed up, but e.g. picture previews didn't. Is this a load problem?

Node went down unfortunately, give it another go.

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#37
I must be an old curmudgeon because whenever I see Campfire I think "it's like IRC but with a better client" and wonder what the big deal is.

Sure, it's in a browser but is it really that big a deal? I just can't seem to get properly excited about Campfire and it's ilk.

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#38
post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To their defense, that demo did look very much like a clone of Campfire.

It was a freaking chat room!

It was a note for note cover of the 37Signals UI that was clearly designed to evoke Campfire, done by Google. What's the web chat room designed prior to Campfire that looks virtually identical to Campfire?

Re: Holla - An open source Campfire

#40
The only thing I dislike about Campfire is that it doesn't support some other protocol, like XMPP or IRC, so that I can use it in a normal chat client, with normal chat client features, like desktop notifications.

This one doesn't seem to, either.

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