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HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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For those asking "why is HipChat better than X", one of the big reasons lies with the number of integrations with other products.

Our product Bugsnag (https://bugsnag.com) has HipChat integration, so you can instantly see errors from your apps appear in your chat room. We've also set up curl scripts to post into chat whenever there is a deploy, or push to GitHub.

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Awesome. I am just looking into chat options for our small but growing team. As an aside I think IRC is being sold short on this chart: https://www.hipchat.com/compare Nothing wrong against it since it is mosting a marketing comparison chart. IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already so I get it. We decided to try out an IRC channel because it was easy to get started, no cost really, and knowin…

IRC has no chat history or unauthenticated access, apparently.

My friend was working on a web client for IRC [1] that provides a persistent connection (and hence chat history). I'm not sure if he's gonna finish it though.

[1] https://github.com/pavben/WebIRC

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

#55
HipChat has surprisingly been the most effective productivity tool we've taken up in the past 5 years.

After only a month of use, virtually all communication and notification streams (GitHub, Jenkins, Zendesk, systems monitoring) in our company have converged in HipChat. It's hard to imagine we've ever done without.

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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post #22

Awesome. I am just looking into chat options for our small but growing team. As an aside I think IRC is being sold short on this chart: https://www.hipchat.com/compare Nothing wrong against it since it is mosting a marketing comparison chart. IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already so I get it. We decided to try out an IRC channel because it was easy to get started, no cost really, and knowin…

Shameless plug here, re: "IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already" I'm currently working on a web based IRC client called Relay.js ( https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js ), which is my attempt at making IRC a little more approachable. It's pretty basic at the moment, but I hope to make it something really special in the coming months.

I've been on the lookout for good web IRC interfaces for years. This looks promising. Thanks!

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

#58

Does it work with multiple organizations? Can I have an account that is free for me and 4 friends, but also be part of an organization that someone else pays for? Or as a contractor - could I be part of two different paying organizations?

Looks like that's not possible.

http://help.hipchat.com/knowledgebase/articles/64418-how-do-...

so I wonder how it works for billing - if my boss creates a room that has more than 5 people in it and I join too, is it who opens the room that pays?

Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Shameless plug here, re: "IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already" I'm currently working on a web based IRC client called Relay.js ( https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js ), which is my attempt at making IRC a little more approachable. It's pretty basic at the moment, but I hope to make it something really special in the coming months.

I've been on the lookout for good web IRC interfaces for years. This looks promising. Thanks!

You could also try subway[1] and kiwiirc[2].

[1]: https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

[2]: https://github.com/prawnsalad/KiwiIRC

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