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JabbR - Collaborative chat done right

#1

Post by dchristiansen » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 9:21 AM UTC

JabbR - Collaborative chat done right
davidfowl.github.io

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#2

Post by 255martyn » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 9:24 AM UTC

How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.

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#3

Post by casca » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 9:39 AM UTC

255martyn wrote: post #2

How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.

Hipchat is hosted and you pay them monthly. This has the ASP.net source that you can host yourself.

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Post by philliphaydon » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 9:53 AM UTC

casca wrote: post #3

255martyn wrote: post #2

How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.

Hipchat is hosted and you pay them monthly. This has the ASP.net source that you can host yourself.

It runs on Mono too.

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#5

Post by adamralph » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 10:02 AM UTC

255martyn wrote: post #2

How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.

JabbR is open source and is highly active. Pull requests are accepted relatively quickly.

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#6

Post by dragondilesh » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 10:07 AM UTC

Why not use irc?

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#7

Post by philliphaydon » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 10:11 AM UTC

dragondilesh wrote: post #6

Why not use irc?

Why use irc?

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Post by loevborg » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 10:43 AM UTC

Am I missing something or is "collaborative chat" a pleonasm? Unless you count monologues as valid use cases for a chat application...

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Post by davepermen » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 10:46 AM UTC

loevborg wrote: post #8

Am I missing something or is "collaborative chat" a pleonasm? Unless you count monologues as valid use cases for a chat application...

means it's not 1:1 chat mainly, like skype, msn or similar. it's many rooms with many people, mainly. like irc

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Post by actionthomas » Mon, Apr 08, 2013, 11:14 AM UTC

It's irc on steroids. Very cool.