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#2GitHub+Chat was clearly meant to be
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#3> Team Chat That Doesn't Suck
IRC?
I use IRC for all sorts of purposes and audiences, there are tens ifnot hundreds of implementations that are being actively maintained, and it's been a standard for decades. How does that suck?
Edit: Oh they mention "Like IRC, but smarter", where smarter is a link. Let's see about that.
> Know who's seen any message.
Facebook does this. It more annoys me than anything else, but I can see the point. People could also simply acknowledge having read something, but again, ok I see the point.
> Edit messages after you've sent them.
Depends on the audience... On Skype (1 on 1 chat) it rocks, StackExchange's chat is generally not for 13-year-olds either so there it works as well, but in most team chats I wouldn't want this feature. Since it's aimed at Github users, I suppose this is a nice feature.
> Automatically embeds content like YouTube, pictures of cats and other stuff.
God no.
> Did we mention our smart notifications? @mentions. Batched notifications. Won't annoy you by making your phone beep on every message.
IRC, IRC and IRC.
> Awesome emotigifs.
You mean like MSN's Winks®? [1]
> Infinite chat history stored in the cloud.
trustworthiness--;
> Searchable too, naturally.
grep
> Oh, and a unified activity feed.
Hmm, what's that for? You mean like IRC clients' "last message" feature, or a way that stalks people even when your client is not running?
[1] http://img.uptodown.net/screen/windows/bigthumb/free-msn-win...
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#4Why does it request write permission to my private Github repos?
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#5> Team Chat That Doesn't Suck IRC? I use IRC for all sorts of purposes and audiences, there are tens ifnot hundreds of implementations that are being actively maintained, and it's been a standard for decades. How does that suck? Edit: Oh they mention "Like IRC, but smarter", where smarter is a link. Let's see about that. > Know who's seen any message. Facebook does this. It more annoys me than anything else, but I ca…
IRC doesn't have the same level of deep integration with GitHub and ease-of-use that Hub has.
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#6Why does it request write permission to my private Github repos?
Don't worry - we don't touch your repos! Unfortunately the read permissions we need are classified as "write" (or at least we couldn't find a way to specify them as "read" in our very limited time).
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#7GitHub+Chat was clearly meant to be
Thanks, we think so too!
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#8Why does it request write permission to my private Github repos?
GitHub doesn't allow enough specificity in application permissions. They don't need write permission, but they need access to Github orgs (obviously) and GitHub lumps them together.
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#9> Team Chat That Doesn't Suck IRC? I use IRC for all sorts of purposes and audiences, there are tens ifnot hundreds of implementations that are being actively maintained, and it's been a standard for decades. How does that suck? Edit: Oh they mention "Like IRC, but smarter", where smarter is a link. Let's see about that. > Know who's seen any message. Facebook does this. It more annoys me than anything else, but I ca…
IRC doesn't have the same level of deep integration with GitHub and ease-of-use that Hub has.
Sure, but neither does a silicon wafer make it easy to do arithmetic.
What does your app do that a GitHub-aware IRC bot cannot?
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#10So, first things first: Get yourself a domain name.
Second, why do you need Write access to anything? You're team chat, with some notification power. Giving you access to write on not just my repos, but the repos of my organizations, is a pretty big "Hell no" without there being a company there, some names, or(and no offense here, Ross), someone I can properly sue if the shit really hits the fan.
This isn't so much a question of trust as much as just me trying to cover my ass. Right now we're using Campfire, and personally, I'm not a huge fan- yeah it's been integrated with everything under the sun, but interacting with it from a phone is no fun, it's hard to notice anything being said on it without a window constantly open on it, and the styling makes reading Github notifications particularly awful.
This is a longwinded way of me saying I want to give you a shot, but you either need some extremely strong justification, or you need to pull back on those requests.
Edit: I'm seeing that apparently Github doesn't separate the permissions out very much? That's pretty worrying.