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This is very true. :)
HipChat I hope your taking notes!
Read you loud and clear. We are split across all 4 US-East availability zones currently, but its true that we are not multi-region - yet.
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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!
If HipMunk used an IRC backend that would be pretty sweet.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#84This is a perfect size team for using HipChat. We tried HipChat at Gilt with around 40 engineers and it was too cumbersome because of the number of groups.
I hope they finally allowed users to edit their comments. That was one notable issue I had. Also, there was no such thing as a "private" group because admins had access to all groups.
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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.
Ooh, if you're open to suggestions, my number one frustration with IRC goes like this: I'm connected and happily chatting, but then my Wifi blips and I'm disconnected. There's no chat log, so I don't know what I missed. And on crappy connections, this can happen pretty frequently. I know there are programs that'll keep you online and collect chat logs even if you disconnect, but it seems ridiculous to have to set up…
Shameless plug here as well, I'm developing something that will sort of solve that problem for channels you own: http://www.getinstabot.com
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> which you could do with an IRC bot, but then you have to maintain that That's exactly the use case for which I started building http://www.getinstabot.com/ , but I haven't seen much interest, sadly.
Looks nice to me! You've got my email now. :)
Thanks, emailed :-)
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#87Anyone use HipChat and Olark? I'm worried that switching off our regular chat will make me sign on more and our users won't be able to contact us on Olark.
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#88Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
The biggest difference is that HipChat is primarily about "rooms" and less about messaging individual people (although you can do that too). It makes for much better team workflow, because it enables a lot more passive information sharing. Most people in a room don't want to be actively involved in everything, but they would like to passively just see what's going on. Secondly, it's centralized around a company, so y…
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HipChat I hope your taking notes!
Read you loud and clear. We are split across all 4 US-East availability zones currently, but its true that we are not multi-region - yet.
Hey there. Didn't intend to call you out, just wanted to make sure other's didn't get bit. :) You don't have an email in your profile, but shoot me one and maybe we can chat a bit more.