Unfortunately, I missed the IRC era.
Can someone recommend good tutorials on:-
1. Using IRC [beginner] & [advanced]?
2. How to set-up own IRC server and which are the good ones?
HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
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Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#112Earlier quoted context omitted.
I trialled HipChat a little while ago, but there is no phone? For me that was a deal breaker - if it had a skype-like talk option as well, it would serve the purpose. People like the all-in-one tool that Skype is, even if the chat side is weak.
IIRC they also support voice and video chat, but I have yet to use that part of the product.
Well, I couldn't find it anywhere in the product, and believe me I was looking.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#113Hi there powdahound, what is the main benefit of hipchat versus using Skype? I see on the home page "persistant chat rooms" but I use that feature in skype (I create a chat with several people and then favourite it). I'm not understanding the potential benefit. We have a team of more than 40 people all working virtually.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does (m)IRC have the ability to log everything? It's been a decade since I've used mIRC but I could have sworn I was able to save everything even back then.
It certainly does. I'm pretty sure that almost every IRC client can do this, as can IM clients like Pidgin. (That reminds me: does Hipchat work well with Pidgin?) edit: I think the difference on that chart, though, is that mIRC is a __client__, whereas I suspect that Hipchat's server also does logging -- so that you can see the chat log even if you were previously not connected. That's not something that is normally…
That's an excellent point, they're probably referring to server-side, always-on-even-if-you're-not logging.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#115Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
Messages sent in a Skype chat room when you are offline are only sent to your client when other members of the room are online. So if you sign on before the rest of the participants in the morning, you don't see any messages sent overnight until someone else joins.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#116Or just use Google chat and this:
https://github.com/mattlong/hermes
Of course, until Google pulls the plug.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#117Aside 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…
Rooms can be created on Skype, that's the way we use skype in our business, we create a group chat between all the relevant people and then favorite it and it's the same as a room.
The contact list issue is good I think for larger companies especially in the beginning.
I'm wondering about how the integrations could be used in our business, and I'm also wondering if we can integrate our software with HipChat
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#118Awesome. I am just looking into chat options for our small but growing team. As an aside I think IRC is being sold short on this chart: https://www.hipchat.com/compare Nothing wrong against it since it is mosting a marketing comparison chart. IRC is fairly hard to use if you aren't familiar with it already so I get it. We decided to try out an IRC channel because it was easy to get started, no cost really, and knowin…
We use http://partychapp.appspot.com (it was recommended on a previous HN posting). We already used Google Talk for one on one chats so this just adds a group chat into that, and works really well. It also doesn't require additional clients, doing group chats differently than one on one, yet more usernames and passwords etc.
Used to use this, then it was always down. Now use http://Jaconda.im. Always just works, has a convenient web interface as well for great room history.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#119For <5 people, what does this give that a Skype Group conversation cant especially as people will need to instal/use another client ?
When my team and I started using HipChat, I wasn't really sure what to expect (since every chat application prior to it seemed pretty much the same). I've found these benefits: - Works on all of my devices. If someone @mentions me, it'll notify my phone just like a text message and/or email me (unless I disable that). And I can reply from my phone's hipchat client. - Chat rooms and 1-on-1 work seemlessly. Chat rooms…
Not to mention that urls to images get posted in-line. Do you know how many funny animated GIFs can be posted on a chat room?
This sounds like me being facetious, but it's a great morale booster for teams.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
We use http://partychapp.appspot.com (it was recommended on a previous HN posting). We already used Google Talk for one on one chats so this just adds a group chat into that, and works really well. It also doesn't require additional clients, doing group chats differently than one on one, yet more usernames and passwords etc.
Used to use this, then it was always down. Now use http://Jaconda.im . Always just works, has a convenient web interface as well for great room history.
We've never had a problem with the former - always works and always up!