IRC necromancy

Post by kuschku » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 6:33 PM UTC

na85 wrote: post #70

kuschku wrote: post #65

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That’s not really possible, actually. The push notification systems used by Android and iOS only allow the same person that can authorize updates for an app to send push notifications to this app. This means either every IRC app would need to operate an open gateway for notifications, or you’d need to give every IRC server the same certificate that you use to sign your app updates on the Apple AppStore. Push notifica…

Okay, well, now we've discovered a big obstacle to irc adoption on mobile. Things like this are the reason slack and discord ate irc. Most users simply won't sign up for 3 services just to chat.

Post by rhave » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 7:13 PM UTC

opless wrote: post #66

rhave wrote: post #13

Oh, memories. We also made a lightweight channel service to take the load off of Q. I think it was a little before newserv came into production. We designed it over generous amounts of whisky in a suburb to Stockholm. It's on github ( https://github.com/quakenet/lightweight ).

Q has been around for ~20 years, is quakenet still growing?

Post by starkruzr » Sun, Nov 19, 2017, 7:59 PM UTC

awirth wrote: post #10

loeg wrote: post #9

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We use IRC sort of interchangeably with Slack at my work. The nice thing about IRC is you can host it on-premise and Slack doesn't have all of your company's confidential information. The downside is that it doesn't come bundled with a pretty webapp with GIFs and emojis.

At work we have an onsite Zulip instance which meets both those requirements for us (including SSO integration). It's surprising to me that there aren't more places using it.

Post by kuschku » Mon, Nov 20, 2017, 2:29 AM UTC

kuschku wrote: post #64

CJefferson wrote: post #59

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I'm glad you are working on that, but "Just run the core anywhere (we’re looking into offering it hosted, too), connect with the web ui," really doesn't count as easy to use -- now everyone on my IRC channel needs to run a server which is is accessable to the internet, worry about security updates, both for the server and your software specifically. Whereas with slack, I just do "make account, login, done". Until it'…

> now everyone on my IRC channel needs to run a server which is is accessable to the internet, worry about security updates, both for the server and your software specifically. Well, the beautiful thing about this is that you can run one quassel core, for dozens, hundreds, or potentially even thousands of users. LDAP login is also supported, and I might add later on automated connecting to a pre-configured network. Y…