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Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by xur17 »

maxxxxx wrote: post #29
porphyrogene wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same thought. For the sake of clarity, Spectrum is not a cable company unto itself. It is a brand owned by Time Warner Cable, a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction.

Somehow they managed to escape into even more dissatisfaction. At least Time Warner had different plans and didn't spam me several times a week with letters. Now they only have one $70 plan and are sending me a ton of mail with "deals" that aren't deals.

They like to disguise these mailings as bills and personal letters for me as well.

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by blfr »

brianlovin wrote: post #14
meritt wrote: post #3

This is the first time I've heard of Spectrum, anyone mind summarizing the key features/differentiation? It looks similar to Slack or Discord, with a focus on discoverable open communities as opposed to private organizations, and threaded conversations being a key feature?

Hey, co-founder here. We've really been focused on threaded, public-by-default, search-indexed conversations. We've found this to be super helpful for large, async communities so far, and the search-indexing is really great for organic discovery and preventing too many duplicate questions that someone might ask in a synchronous chat app. But we also support private communities, private channels, direct messages, publ…

Like Google's Wave (RIP)?

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by petejodo »

djsumdog wrote: post #44
sandGorgon wrote: post #21

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There is so riot.im which is built on top of Matrix.org (which was built for federation and E2E encryption). There are already IRC and Discord bridges to matrix. Riot is being deployed as the govt chat infrastructure for 5 million users in France. The SaaS version is modular.im (much cheaper than slack)

That's the next thing on my list to setup. I want to get a synapse server up with FB Messenger/Hangouts/IRC/Discord and Slack bridges to bring all my messaging back under a gateway I control (even if I have no control over the actual chat services) and a unified accessible history.

I'd like to read about how that goes! This is exactly what I want as well. I hear synapse requires a good amount of resources

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by drewmol »

amyjess wrote: post #41
porphyrogene wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had the same thought. For the sake of clarity, Spectrum is not a cable company unto itself. It is a brand owned by Time Warner Cable, a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction.

> a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction Not quite. TWC switched to the Spectrum brand when they were acquired by Charter, because Charter was in the process of rolling out the Spectrum brand for their own services at the time. (to be fair, you could probably argue that Charter launching the Spectrum brand was "a thin facade to escape their reputation for costumer dissatisfaction", but…

Charter launched the Spectrum brand as a thin facade to escape their reputation for customer dissatisfaction. Charter acquired TWC. Charter re-branded TWC as Spectrum, a thin facade to escape TWC's reputation for customer dissatisfaction, among other benefits. Charter advertised heavily in existing TWC markets, spending lots of $ to broadcast the message of 'free' speed increases existing TWC customers would get as a result of the Spectrum takeover. Charter did all this as a thin facade to escape scrutiny for increasing minimum internet service costs in TWC's existing markets.

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by ensignavenger »

Arkanosis wrote: post #12

I didn't know Spectrum until today. It looks similar to Gitter. As I understand it, it means we now have at least three “slack-like”, well-backed, open-source, community-centered chats: - Gitter, now owned by GitLab; - Spectrum, now owned by GitHub; - Mattermost, independent, but fully integrated within GitLab. That's great to have credible alternatives to the proprietary behemots that are Slack, Discord and others,…

Zulip has a matrix bridge (https://zulip.com/integrations/doc/matrix)

Also, Zulip is full open source, not open core (meant as a response to rst's comment, not the parent...). Mattermost is open core.

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by egypturnash »

bobthepanda wrote: post #18
wlesieutre wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to be confused with the other Spectrum which is a real-time chat service and forum https://robertsspaceindustries.com/spectrum/ https://starcitizen.tools/Spectrum_(module)

Or the other Spectrum, formed from the merger of Time Warner Cable and Charter.

Or the other Spectrum, the magazine of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, which has been published since 1964...

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by DIVx0 »

brianlovin wrote: post #50
DIVx0 wrote: post #48

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I have a project within my corp where we need to collaborate with other companies on a shared project. We want to do this privately and right now run our own rocketchat stuff to do this. However we are open to hosted solutions. I was unaware of this product until now, I figured I'd give it a spin to see what was available now and hope for some cool github integration in the future. However the public-by-default stuff…

Hey there - if you selected 'private' during the community creation flow, everything in that community will be private. However, there will still exist the concept of "public" and "private" channels, however those scopes are still constrained by the community settings. For example, a private community with a public general channel means everyone who has access to the community can see those conversations. But if you…

Ok, then this text in the "general" channel settings is very confusing:

Anyone on Spectrum can join this channel, post threads and messages, and will be able to see other members. If you want to create private channels, get in touch.

Also, it would be helpful if i could tell at a glance which communities I was in were private vs public. I can't even tell from the communities setting page if I selected private or not on creation (I did, but i'd still like to see that noted)

Thanks, looking forward to seeing how this gets integrated

*I'd love to see documents/media added to threads added to the repos (optionally perhaps)

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