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Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by derpapst » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

leahculver wrote: post #39

derpapst wrote: post #36

Not sure whether it is in your vision as well, but wouldn't it be cool if Grove.io offered a library of such IRC agents in the same manner as HuBot from GitHub?

I think this is a super cool idea and it's something I've been thinking a lot about. Right now, existing IRC bots work fine with Grove but it would be cooler to have more integration.

Could even open a market of such bots for you: Customers of Grove.io could then offer their bots in your IRC bot market place ... but now I'm just dreaming ;-)

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by castewart » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:29 PM UTC

akavlie wrote: post #22

Hmm, I just started working on an open source web-based IRC client a couple of weeks ago. This takes a bit of the wind out of my sails.

Don't let it get you too discouraged- Leah doesn't last very long with any one project so you'll be fine in a few months.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by leahculver » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:30 PM UTC

akavlie wrote: post #22

Hmm, I just started working on an open source web-based IRC client a couple of weeks ago. This takes a bit of the wind out of my sails.

Grove is primarily an IRC server for your business (the client is tangential), so please don't give up! Actually, feel free to send me an email - I'd love to help you get your web client working smoothly with the Grove server.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by maximusprime » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:31 PM UTC

erikb wrote: post #35

Maybe it's just in my circles like this, but I think these days chat itself is no service anymore. You need to integrate it into something else, like social networks, gtalk, skype (chat+telephone), "webcam-services". 10 years ago Grove might've been awesome, but now it feels like something is missing, because I can chat everywhere else contextrelated anyway. Look how meebo developed over the last years. First it inte…

Meebo also took $ SEVENTY million in funding.

When you take that sort of investment, the rules of the game change a lot I think. It's no longer sufficient to make a few million profit a month.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by strick » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:31 PM UTC

Grove looks very cool. But groupme is free and has a good iphone/android client that a non-technical user can setup and use. Push notifications work great.

But Grove intrigues me for the ability to hook up useful bots to IRC.

If Groupme had an API available now, I'm not sure Grove would offer any benefits for my purposes. But I love how this space is exploding with all sorts of cool services.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by EricButler » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:37 PM UTC

I've been beta testing irccloud.com. It's very well done, but I'd also like something that can be self-hosted to access internal-only IRC servers.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by swombat » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:39 PM UTC

castewart wrote: post #42

akavlie wrote: post #22

Hmm, I just started working on an open source web-based IRC client a couple of weeks ago. This takes a bit of the wind out of my sails.

Don't let it get you too discouraged- Leah doesn't last very long with any one project so you'll be fine in a few months.

Even if this is true (I have no idea whether it is), making this comment here and at this time is in extremely poor form. You should be ashamed of your utter lack of simple etiquette.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by razzaj » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:49 PM UTC

But aren't the hassles one of the aspects us "geeks" like about IRC? I think us "geeks" deep inside love the terminal, having to setup an IRC client on a hosted server and tweaking the settings, getting our hands dirty. Us, "geeks", love also the sense of exclusivity that the barrier to entry to IRC provides. Take that, and the hassles, away and it becomes yet another chat network.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by leahculver » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:55 PM UTC

gojomo wrote: post #13

Will its model work well with an open source/community project – where you want to allow all walk-up participants, but need some moderator powers? For example, can you edit the searchable logs to remove spam?

I can actually think of a few good reasons why you might want to remove messages as a moderator. We'll add this soon.

Re: Grove.io: Hosted, Searchable IRC Chat For Teams

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Post by arbales » Tue, Nov 08, 2011, 9:56 PM UTC

The Do team has been using Grove for a while now, and we're really liking it. The web app supports embedded content and gravatars, and connecting via IRC is great for those who love it.

We used Convore in the past, and Grove has definitely encapsulated the best parts of Convore along with laser-focused features and great performance. We actually can't wait to be a (or the first?) paying customer.