I used Slack at $job-1 and I found it to be a pretty good chat client. I'm very skeptical that it is better than IRC for LOPSA. I wonder if we need something "better" than IRC. The primary improvement seems to be channel management and emoticons, neither seem that important to me. What I think we really need is more people in the discussion.
There are a few things I'd like to investigate that might improve our real-time, synchronous communications. Specifically, moving to a system that support XMPP in addition to IRC. I don't want to give up IRC because a lot of us have built our communications around it. I do want to add more and more modern options to our chat room. There are many (wrong-headed?) companies that block IRC, mine included, because once-upon-a-time bots used it as a command and control channel. XMPP is less blocked and more feature-rich than IRC. Can you recommend any IRC/XMPP services that do both? (I know Slack does both and from experience I know that the IRC integration is annoying to use.) -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
