[Nix-dev] Open source team messaging: mattermost

[Wout Mertens]

ok, then how about at the very least an IRC bot that sends you a recent
history when you connect, and that lets you search the logs?

I presume such a bot must exist?

Wout.

On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:32 PM Jonn Mostovoy <jm at memorici.de> wrote:

> Dear Wout,
>
> you can't grep discord. Search there is atrocious.
> Slack, on the other hand has an amazing full text search engine, which is
> a huge part in its success.
> However, as search over slack has some heuristics, when I need plain dumb
> (or pretty elaborate) grep, I can't run it over history of Slack.
>
> Picking the tool is about engineering tradeoffs. Right now, IRC is optimal
> given optimization parameters, starting from not sharding the community,
> going through network resilience and system's fault tolerance, ending with
> the degree of democracy IRC provides.
> On Mar 8, 2016 7:30 AM, "Wout Mertens" <wout.mertens at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After having used Slack and Discord for a while, I can tell you that
>> having the recent chat log available with a quick scroll up is very handy.
>> Conversations can continue over a longer period of time.
>>
>> With IRC, you have to open your client, fire off your question a few
>> times and hope that someone will know the answer eventually. I can't have
>> IRC open at work all day.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 12:55 AM Profpatsch <mail at profpatsch.de> wrote:
>>
>>> On 16-03-01 11:46pm, Teo Klestrup Röijezon wrote:
>>> > Plain IRC sucks.
>>>
>>> It’s true, but it f* works.
>>>
>>> Especially for developers, devs who can’t configure an IRC client?
>>> Are those people devs?
>>>
>>> But I know the pain.
>>>
>>> Hm, we even use IRC as main communication tool in our Hackerspace,
>>> and so far even non-tech people managed to get a basic setup running.
>>> Maybe no bouncer, but that’s not required strictly speaking.
>>>
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>> Wout.
>> (typed on mobile, excuse terseness)
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