Spectrum is joining GitHub

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Post by adamwathan » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 5:18 PM UTC

Spectrum is joining GitHub
spectrum.chat

Re: Spectrum is joining GitHub

#2

Post by merlincorey » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 5:43 PM UTC

I've never used this product, but I might now, since the article indicates that all their services are now free.

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Post by meritt » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 5:55 PM UTC

This is the first time I've heard of Spectrum, anyone mind summarizing the key features/differentiation? It looks similar to Slack or Discord, with a focus on discoverable open communities as opposed to private organizations, and threaded conversations being a key feature?

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#4

Post by jhokanson » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

Apparently this has nothing to do with the cable company ...?

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Post by the_mitsuhiko » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 5:57 PM UTC

meritt wrote: post #3

This is the first time I've heard of Spectrum, anyone mind summarizing the key features/differentiation? It looks similar to Slack or Discord, with a focus on discoverable open communities as opposed to private organizations, and threaded conversations being a key feature?

It’s a mix of gitter and discourse.

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Post by sjroot » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 6:02 PM UTC

I am very happy to see this. It is a well-polished product that I would use any day over alternatives like Discord, which lots of OSS projects seem to be shifting to. Congratulations to the team.

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Post by PaulHoule » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

Oh great, Microsoft bought the cable company!

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Post by sethammons » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

jhokanson wrote: post #4

Apparently this has nothing to do with the cable company ...?

I expected to see something about the cable company. Never heard of spectrum.chat. Is "Spectrum" their actual name? Or is it "spectrum.chat"?

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Post by bovermyer » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 6:04 PM UTC

For those who, like me, have never heard of this before:

Spectrum is a real-time chat service where each conversation has a permalink.

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Post by ggregoire » Fri, Nov 30, 2018, 6:05 PM UTC

I quite often take a look at the code of Spectrum: https://github.com/withspectrum/spectrum.

It's my go-to (with https://github.com/Automattic/wp-calypso) to get an idea of how they solved a particular issue in their React app.

I'm really thankful to them for open sourcing their product. I wish more companies would go this way.

Anyway, congratz to Max (also author of Styled Components) and the rest of the team!