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

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Agreed. We need to figure out a good way to do better bot integration! (suggestions welcome)

I'd probably start with a configurable bot with a few predefined plugins (RSS feeds, version control / bug tracker integration, etc) and a configuration UI (similar to Github's Services hooks) Eventually you could add a way to define custom plugins that are properly sandboxed.

You're describing http://hubot.github.com/ which ist pretty much a configurable bot with a few scripts and an irc adapter. It doesn't have a configuration page though.

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

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would be great to integrate with github

You should be able to use Hubot with Grove as it provides IRC interface. We have few users already using it.

Hubot does provide the irc-interface but then github itself doesn't provide a hubot hook. So you're pretty much stuck at the same place. Github itself does provide an IRC hook but that does not work since it can't authenticate with nickserv, it only allows for server and room passwords.

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

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One functionality I miss from HipChat that I haven't found here, is the ability to copy files from your disk and paste them to the chat (or drag and drop), where they get automatically uploaded so all the chat members can view or download them. If Grove gets that, I'm sold.

Unless I'm missing some detail of what you're saying, HipChat already does that. I regularly drag screenshots into a conversation. Hipchat uploads them to S3. There is a size restriction, though, which I've run up against more times than I can count, since I never seem to be able to remember that it's there.

What @napoleoncomplex meant was hipchat has the file upload feature, but grove doesn't. And he would move to grove if that was present.

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

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I'd be interested to know how this stacks up against HipChat. I'm not sure what I'm missing out on, but it would be good to hear if there is something.

The major advantage I see with this over HipChat is that you can use existing IRC client software to connect. Personally, I'd much prefer Irssi in a terminal to an Adobe AIR product.

You can connect to HipChat from any Jabber client, though unfortunately it makes chat rooms slightly less discoverable. (I’ve used Adium with reasonable success.) The big advantage is that (at least on a Mac) the Adobe AIR version is a tremendous CPU hog.
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