JabbR - Collaborative chat done right (davidfowl.github.io)

25 points by dchristiansen 13y ago ↗ HN

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255martyn 13y ago ↗

How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.

casca 13y ago ↗

Hipchat is hosted and you pay them monthly. This has the ASP.net source that you can host yourself.

philliphaydon 13y ago ↗

It runs on Mono too.

adamralph 13y ago ↗

JabbR is open source and is highly active. Pull requests are accepted relatively quickly.

dragondilesh 13y ago ↗

Why not use irc?

philliphaydon 13y ago ↗

Why use irc?

Shorel 13y ago ↗

Irc clients are faster and more featured than web apps.

Also, you can have bots.

NTaylorMullen 13y ago ↗

There's bots in JabbR too

halter73 13y ago ↗

There is a client library that makes it easy to write JabbR bots in .NET/Mono:

https://github.com/davidfowl/JabbR.Client

philliphaydon 13y ago ↗

'faster' is subjective.

There really isn't much IRC does that you can't do with JabbR.

[deleted] 13y ago ↗

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loevborg 13y ago ↗

Am I missing something or is "collaborative chat" a pleonasm? Unless you count monologues as valid use cases for a chat application...

davepermen 13y ago ↗

means it's not 1:1 chat mainly, like skype, msn or similar. it's many rooms with many people, mainly. like irc

actionthomas 13y ago ↗

It's irc on steroids. Very cool.

_ed_ 13y ago ↗

why not simply use jabber and its buildin conference rooms? i don't see the point to use a web app (which normaly runs in a web browser) to chat. a standalone chat application/programm can better fit the usage of its user. notifications from a website are ignored or annoys the hell out of me.