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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by hunvreus on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:10AM (#7473896)
Why re-inventing the wheel? IRC and XMPP are proven technologies that scale, I wouldn't go and try to build my own messaging technology: there are hard problems like presence and notifications that you don't want to solve yourself.
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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by hhaidar on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @02:47PM (#7475484)
I don't see how these are hard problems. We needed something simple, stateful and easy to work with so we rolled our own thing. It's only a few hundred lines of code and we've extended it to work with LDAP among other things.
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