Re:Chats.io, new HTML5 / Node.JS-powered social group chat, ...
by d2zo on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:03PM
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Looking over IRCCloud's subscription plans, why would I want to pay for features that have been offered free forever? Is the idea that since I can't run an IRC client on my iPhone that I'd pay for this? I don't get it.
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Re:Chats.io, new HTML5 / Node.JS-powered social group chat, ...
by metabrew on Saturday March 19, 2011 @02:24PM
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We're essentially a nicely designed web-based irc interface with integrated hosted bouncer.
You don't usually get that for free afaik, you'd have to run a bouncer yourself on a vps or something, or attach to screen and use irssi.
Plenty of our users are former screen+irssi users, and many of them are perfectly capable of running a vps+bouncer+whatever themselves, but choose to use us because it's less hassle / more convenient.