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Re:Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative by xellisx on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:24AM (#17625133)
I wish it had color text input support. At my last job, they were looking to replace IRC with RocketChat, and that was a big let down. I even submitted a PR for "Colored Markup" (https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/pull/8639/commits)
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Re:Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative by mkl on Friday July 27, 2018 @07:52AM (#17625266)
What would you be using coloured text input for?
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Re:Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative by xellisx on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:13AM (#17625361)
The use case at the last job, was that I had an IRC bot that had a lot of stuff to deal with support stuff, like DNS configuration for the Hosted Exchange offerings (2010 and 2013 were offered), and it would do colored text for good and bad configurations. Just made it easier to point out the issues.
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Re:Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative by andyidsinga on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:06AM (#17626474)
what were some if the big problems with rocket chat?
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Re:Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative by xellisx on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:39AM (#17626756)
Well, IRC clients allow for more customization for the end users, RocketChat - there was very little. The dev team didn't want to add hacks on to it and would only update when RC would release a new version.
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