RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor

Post by tacone » Fri, May 29, 2015, 5:31 PM UTC

zaargy wrote: post #24

So you set this up and you use it for a few hours and everyone on your team is like hey this is kinda cool. * a month or so passes * Now everyone is invested in the tool and since the expectations have been set by things like Slack they expect integrations to work flawlessly, search to be infinitely fast, 99% uptime, Google OpenID authentication, and a slew of other features and before you know it you have someone sp…

Post by qznc » Fri, May 29, 2015, 5:44 PM UTC

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #33

9point6 wrote: post #16

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Are there any sensible, albeit less popular, modern equivalents to XMPP?

IRC is better and actually more popular. IRC solved the problem of instant messaging over 20 years ago, and solved it very well. This is a problem that everyone and their mother attempts to re-solve and they always end up with a solution that's inferior to IRC. Just deploy an IRC server folks!

Post by scott_karana » Fri, May 29, 2015, 5:53 PM UTC

Sir_Cmpwn wrote: post #40

scott_karana wrote: post #36

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IRC solved basic communication, but the necessity of bots for things like authentication for usernames, logging, and retaining permissions are inelegant kludges, in my opinion. If XMPP has problems, so does IRC.

I don't think it'd be very difficult to set up some sort of web UI for account creation, combined with existing in-client features for usernames/passwords. That'd be more worthwhile than building a new solution from scratch. IRC has advantages over XMPP by having a much wider variety of clients and the fact that you can create your own integrations for things like build automation in a very short period of time thank…

Post by Drdrdrq » Fri, May 29, 2015, 5:54 PM UTC

morganvachon wrote: post #58

thekevan wrote: post #51

There's a link to an "online demo" but then it asks for your login info or for you to register. That isn't really a demo then, is it?

That's the brick wall I hit too. I'm not giving them my email address for a demo, and I'm not logging in with a social media service. I suppose I could download it myself and try it out that way, but that's a ton of effort for something I may not even want in the end. Rocket.Chat devs, if you're listening, please provide a way to demo the program without giving up real information.

Post by morganvachon » Fri, May 29, 2015, 6:01 PM UTC

Drdrdrq wrote: post #77

morganvachon wrote: post #58

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That's the brick wall I hit too. I'm not giving them my email address for a demo, and I'm not logging in with a social media service. I suppose I could download it myself and try it out that way, but that's a ton of effort for something I may not even want in the end. Rocket.Chat devs, if you're listening, please provide a way to demo the program without giving up real information.

Agreed. If you still want to use it however just enter somerandomstring@mailcatch.com and then check the mail at http://somerandomstring.mailcatch.com/ . Very useful when you want to bypass such useless logins, just know that the mail is public.