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Re:Collaborative chat done right by Blahah on Thursday April 11, 2013 @06:12AM (#5530967)
I don't really understand the proliferation of group chat platforms. It's been around the since the dawn of the internet, and it already works great (IRC). Do we really need to keep smothering it in new web interfaces?
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Re:Collaborative chat done right by johnchristopher on Thursday April 11, 2013 @07:31AM (#5531218)
I recently installed an IRC server on my pi to satisfy my 15-years-old me wishes to operate an IRC server.

None of my geeky friends tried it out, I ended up writing some bots to have a chat with :(.

Seriously, configuring and securing correctly an IRC server take more time that I would like to admit. And it's a bit ugly on the screen and people don't want to learn '/' commands and authentication when skype/msn allow them to do funny things in a much easier way.

I should have installed a jabber server.

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