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Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by swanson »

So did Leah Culver's other web-chat project (http://leafychat.com/) get rolled into this?

It looks interesting, I wonder if these type of projects will eventually replace IRC. I could definitely see popular open source projects using this over IRC, especially if they have features like snippet embedding.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by kingkilr »

swanson wrote: post #6

So did Leah Culver's other web-chat project ( http://leafychat.com/ ) get rolled into this? It looks interesting, I wonder if these type of projects will eventually replace IRC. I could definitely see popular open source projects using this over IRC, especially if they have features like snippet embedding.

Nope leafy chat was/is an entirely separate project (I was one of the devs), I don't doubt some of the UI/whatever for convore was inspired by it though.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by simonw »

I've been hanging out on Convore for a few weeks and they're definitely on to something - it's entirely replaced Twitter as my online water cooler.

In a way it's similar to IRC, but the ability to create new topics which have their own chatroom-style thread (while still being alerted to conversations elsewhere) means you can duck out and come back again a few days later and pick up the same conversation.

Re: Convore (YC W11) Wants To Be The Easiest Group Communication App Yet

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Post by leahculver »

kingkilr wrote: post #7
swanson wrote: post #6

So did Leah Culver's other web-chat project ( http://leafychat.com/ ) get rolled into this? It looks interesting, I wonder if these type of projects will eventually replace IRC. I could definitely see popular open source projects using this over IRC, especially if they have features like snippet embedding.

Nope leafy chat was/is an entirely separate project (I was one of the devs), I don't doubt some of the UI/whatever for convore was inspired by it though.

Yes, Leafy Chat was a totally separate project built by myself, Alex Gaynor, and Chris Wanstrath for the Django Dash a couple years ago. Leafy Chat was a pure web IRC client. Convore is inspired by IRC but not based on the protocol and functions a bit differently. For example, Convore has the concept of topics, which is not in IRC.
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