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Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by aeontech »

lechat wrote: post #18
lebski88 wrote: post #17

Are your chat logs encrypted and suitably protected? Losing your chat logs could be very damaging for a company - knowing that logs are safe is a required feature for us.

Yes. Encrypted filesystem, continuous encrypted backups.

That should be in the list of features on home page.

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by ajacksified »

lechat wrote: post #5
aeontech wrote: post #4

Looks clean and simple. What's your backend infrastructure? Didn't see much technical detail in the FAQ :)

Thanks! Erlang + websockets + Postgres

Neat. My friends and I switched from ejabberd to Prosody[1], a Lua XMPP server; Lua is quite a bit easier to use than Erlang (unless you are already an Erlang grandwizard), so writing new plugins is a breeze with prosody. Of course, ejabberd already has a lot of plugins written, so lots of benefits there as well.

Good luck! Hosted xmpp could be executed really well.

[1] http://prosody.im/

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by aeontech »

lmm wrote: post #19
aeontech wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair point, but you try and get a whole company to use IRC+emacs ;) Not gonna happen.

The first company I worked for did everything on IRC. They were also by far the most successful company I've worked for. Coincidence?

Sure, and I still use IRC every day. But IRC+emacs is going to be a tiny fraction of the world, saying "this product is useless because there is an advanced alternative" is like saying "Oh, why would anyone ever want to fly commercial, it's so much easier and more fun to build and fly your own airplane".

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by lechat »

citricsquid wrote: post #13

The fake names are disconcerting for a product that will handle sensitive information (chats). (edit: unless 2 co-founders are genuinely named Bob Smith and John Doe, in which case maybe consider changing your names :p)

I kind of wish those were our real names, would be awesome.

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by lechat »

avree wrote: post #23

Does this work with XMPP? Also, any chance of Pivotal Tracker integration? I've tried HipChat, Jaconda, Hall, Skype, etc... still trying to find something that works well for our team at Getaround.

Hi there. We'll integrate with Pivotal Tracker - we're sort of implementing integrations on demand.

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by grishick »

We have a distributed team of 4 engineers in 3 different locations. We have been using lechat.im for the last month and it has improved the information flow dramatically. Before lechat.im we tried hangouts, Skype and gTalk and those all fall short of the features that matter for a distributed team. Things that I love about lechat: search, SVN and git hooks (checking go into a separate room as messages), notifications, chat history.

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by lechat »

avree wrote: post #23

Does this work with XMPP? Also, any chance of Pivotal Tracker integration? I've tried HipChat, Jaconda, Hall, Skype, etc... still trying to find something that works well for our team at Getaround.

Does not work with XMPP. We're opting for high-quality native clients for everything (coming soon).

Re: Show HN: Lechat – team chat for developers

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Post by avree »

lechat wrote: post #28
avree wrote: post #23

Does this work with XMPP? Also, any chance of Pivotal Tracker integration? I've tried HipChat, Jaconda, Hall, Skype, etc... still trying to find something that works well for our team at Getaround.

Does not work with XMPP. We're opting for high-quality native clients for everything (coming soon).

But you're chat for developers! You're never going to be able to offer the level of customization people get out of Adium/Messages/their chat client of choice.

Facebook took this approach with Facebook Chat but eventually offered XMPP. Curious to hear what value you think the native client approach would offer.

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