Starting an Internet Service Provider

Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by trafficlight on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:02PM (#13689392)

I'll look into it. We should have an unlimited account.

Edit: it appears there is a 5 guest limit per paid account.

Edit 2: I think I'm going to set up a Mattermost server and push people that way.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by liveify on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:54PM (#13689863)

You could also consider discord. It's popular in the gaming community but is capable of housing large discussions

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by trafficlight on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:59PM (#13689902)

That would work too.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by popey456963 on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:13PM (#13690003)

Would definitely recommend Discord, although it's aimed at gamers, it seems to be an amazing all-round chat service.

Rooms are of an unlimited size and have all the core functionality like file & image sharing, code highlighting, "reactions", which we've come to expect but also focuses more on getting people to speak to each other. It's built on electron and is both really quick & also require almost no resources when running in the background.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by zer0t3ch on Monday February 20, 2017 @08:52PM (#13692587)

It has code highlighting? This is news to me.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by rohmish on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:33PM (#13698909)

discord has become so much more than a gaming comms platform now. And rightfully so. It is an amazing platform.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by zer0t3ch on Wednesday February 22, 2017 @04:41AM (#13704342)

Definitely, I use it for most of my comms. (Except for Telegram which I use for general messaging)

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by shambolic on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:08PM (#13691438)

Or you could just use an IRC channel...

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by bottled_poe on Monday February 20, 2017 @07:44PM (#13692323)

But that's old. I'm only interested in new new NEW!!

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by matt_wulfeck on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:34PM (#13693054)

You have to admit, getting people on slack is much easier than getting them to join your irc channel.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by ashark on Monday February 20, 2017 @11:56PM (#13693389)

Despite having to have Slack for work anyway, I find joining public projects' Slack channels to be too high-commitment, so I never do it. IRC? No problem. I also like that IRC somehow has both a less formal and a lower-BS feel/culture to it.

For non-tech people, yeah, it's probably easier.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by Famicoman on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:46PM (#13690273)

I'd really like to see usage of Matrix/Riot instead. A federated, open network and you can easily bridge your existing slack channels.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by woah on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:18PM (#13690057)

Might want to try Riot. It uses a protocol called Matrix, which is the successor to IRC. What this means is that you're not tied to them. Also the web, desktop, and mobile clients are pretty sweet.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by kiallmacinnes on Monday February 20, 2017 @05:09PM (#13691454)

Does Matrix really have the userbase in place to start calling it an IRC successor so definitively?

It may be aiming for it, and I do hope we see an open chat protocol succeed over all the Slacks and HipChats, but calling it the successor right now seems a little disingenuous!

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by yuvipanda on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @06:05AM (#13694743)

Don't see anything else around that fits that bill. They also have amazing IRC bridging - I have been using Matrix bridged into Freenode as my primary 'IRC Client' for almost a year now.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by kiallmacinnes on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @07:22AM (#13694953)

IRCv3?

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by mst on Monday February 20, 2017 @03:55PM (#13690819)

It's more aimed to be a successor to XMPP/SMS - hence the focus on federation and mobile friendliness.

Edit: Note this statement is based on my talking to people actually at matrix, on the dev team.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by kuschku on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @02:38AM (#13693993)

Calling Matrix the successor to IRC, when there's actually new IRC standards in development, is very misleading.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by mynewtb on Monday February 20, 2017 @02:13PM (#13690005)

Consider simply using matrix.org, no need for hosting anything yourself unless you want to

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by zoltanveres on Tuesday February 21, 2017 @04:19AM (#13694374)

Hi, let us know when this is ready, i would love to join as well.

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Re:Starting an Internet Service Provider by storrgie on Monday February 20, 2017 @07:23PM (#13692215)

Consider matrix first.

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