[Nix-dev] Open source team messaging: mattermost

[Graham Christensen]

Hi Wout,

Would https://botbot.me/freenode/nixos/ do the trick?

Best,
Graham

On 03/08/2016 08:11 AM, Wout Mertens wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto: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
>     <mailto: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
>         <mailto: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.
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