Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by bphogan on Thursday March 17, 2016 @12:07AM
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Yea. And isn't it funny though in an age of Docker and pre-made VMs that we still configure stuff?
Seems like a quick script would set all this up for us :D
Re:Open Sourcers Race to Build Better Versions of Slack
by Sanddancer on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:24AM
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A lot of ircds disgustingly put some config options in at compile time, including things like the servername. A friend of mine had her irc server give the generic name for her ircd for several months because she couldn't be arsed to spend the time to recompile and reconfigure.
Yes and no. Setting up an IRC server is hard. Pretty much all IRC servers use arcane settings and configuration formats. I run an Inspircd and Hybrid servers, and for people who aren't used to it, it's really daunting compared to setting up something like prosody.
Services on top like Kiwi are nice. I run Shout IRC which is beautiful and slack-like, but again requires passenger and node to work, so lots of moving parts just for a web-ui.
Having said that, all of this is perfectly doable, it's just not so easy if you're used to dealing with something lightweight and a little php on top.