Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution

Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution by mtogo on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @10:57AM (#2969730)

It makes me sad that people are reinventing the IRC and XMPP wheel, and doing it poorly. Want your own version of this, with a bit less effort, but free?

1. Install an XMPP server

  $ sudo apt-get install prosody

2. Install a web frontent

  There are dozens. Here's one for example: http://amiadogroup.github.com/candy/

3. Congratulations, you just saved yourself $199.

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Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution by sad on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:27AM (#2969896)

Don't be sad. Competition and innovation are good things. XMPP and IRC aren't perfect solutions. I haven't seen this app in action so I can't comment on the "doing it poorly" part, but can you elaborate on that? What is poor about the implementation?

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Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution by mgkimsal on Wednesday September 07, 2011 @11:11AM (#2969814)

Ummm... I just tried the 'candy' demo - there's no options for file sharing from the candy interface. Maybe there are in others, but I'd have to go test/try out there - this one says it does it already.

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Re:Introducing Kikuchat: The Self-hosted Team Chat Solution by pstadler on Tuesday September 20, 2011 @08:47AM (#3017305)

You could easily write a plugin which enables file sharing.

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