Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by zbuttram on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:54PM
(#13877561)
Protocol? I kind of assumed things like Slack, Gitter, etc. were just using websockets that communicate with their backend.
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Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by Duhck on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:55PM
(#13877574)
Slack is built on top of IRC. Presumably Gitter is as well
Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by vertex-four on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:06PM
(#13877715)
Slack is definitely not built on top of IRC. There is, however, an IRC interface to Slack.
Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by edoceo on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @12:57PM
(#13877601)
Not on top of IRC. Just similar in that they are both chat like
Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by detaro on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:01PM
(#13877648)
> Slack is built on top of IRC
Source? First time I hear that, and it seems unlikely, since they have quite a few features that don't fit nicely in stock IRC.
Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by kuschku on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:25PM
(#13877924)
I’m not sure there are any Slack features that don’t fit into stock IRC v3. Basically everything they do is already supported or a draft. (Now just everyone has to implement it)
Re:GitLab acquires Gitter, will open-source the code
by detaro on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @01:32PM
(#13877996)
Now, possibly. But unless I'm totally wrong on the timeline, IRCv3 (not even talking about implementations) wasn't even close to that level when Slack started and thus is unlikely to be the base of their product. And even now, I wouldn't include v3 yet when talking about "stock IRC" in this context.