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0 pointsrakoo11y ago0 comments

As always, the problem is not technical, it's packaging. Technically IRC can do all that Hipchat does, but Hipchat provides a simple bundle that any team can subscribe to/buy and use for all its use cases. To replicate the same thing with IRC, you'd need bouncers for everyone with full text search capability, a shared history of everything that happened on the server(s) of the network, support for filesharing for all clients, not just the desktop ones, you'd need some serious management of presence and profile information...

Never forget the "Show HN: Dropbox" and its immediate technical rebuttal [0], see where it is now.

Oh and Hipchat seems to do screen sharing, which AFAIK is not possible with IRC.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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kuschku11y ago

Hmm, what you are suggesting in the beginning sounds just like Quassel:

It is a Bouncer with full PostgreSQL database of the whole log, full search functionality, a shared history between users of the same bouncer, etc.

There are clients as a website (runs on node.js), for Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android.

So, if someone would add the missing features to Quassel, we could make that one the new new HipChat.

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