Re:GitHub open sources Hubot (chat bot)
by willbmoss on Tuesday October 25, 2011 @05:27PM
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Agreed, I should have clarified. We don't just use IRC, but IRC along with other tools to handle pasting text and file uploads. I think what has always bothered me about Campfire (which I'm sure can be solved) is that it's not easy to do thing from the command line. I want to be able to pipe the output of git diff to my pastebin, or upload a log file from a remote machine.
It has some web-oriented features like auto-linkification, condensing long responses, embedding of images, tweets, videos...
It's better to think of Campfire as a client than a protocol; there's nothing it doesn't do that a sufficiently advanced IRC client + logging bot combo can't replicate. I prefer the latter, myself, but I can see the value it adds for many.