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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by opendais on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:11AM (#7473902)

...how is your [insert tech startup here] going to maintain a decent level of QoS if you cannot maintain it for a trio of IRCds and a trio node instances? You could even get away with DNS-only HA since it is purely internal so if A is down, everyone knows to connect to B or C.

The only reason I don't host my own e-mail is I haven't found an open source project that can truly compete with gmail's functionality and the fact I don't really care if Google reads my e-mail since none of it is sensitive.

I have high hopes for https://www.mailpile.is/ since if my Desktop is down, I'm screwed /anyway/.

Just my two cents.

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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by hunvreus on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:25AM (#7474005)

It's not really a matter of ability, rather a matter of focus.

You sure can maintain your own IRC server, the same way you can maintain your own Git server. But it's probably a waste of time when you know that you have free or cheap alternatives (Gmail, GitHub, Mailchimp): stuff breaks, and even if you can fix it doesn't mean you should.

I outsource stuff that I depend on and don't want to waste time maintaining: email, online storage, some collaboration tools...

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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by opendais on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:33AM (#7474083)

Fair enough. I guess I took the struggle + QoS comment and ran with that. :)

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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by hunvreus on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:38AM (#7474121)

Fair enough; outsourcing is not always an option (or convenient). I actually find GitLab pretty compelling.

If you're into mailpile, you should support them for the Knight Foundation News Challenge: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/feedback-review.... Personally, I assume that I wouldn't be able to do a better job at securing stuff up on my own, but it is an interesting project nonetheless.

And if you still have 5 minutes to kill, check out Carbon Folder, my team's entry: https://www.newschallenge.org/challenge/2014/submissions/car...

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Re:Show HN: Mogo Chat – open-source team chat app written in... by opendais on Wednesday March 26, 2014 @11:50AM (#7474214)

I maintain our internal GitLab instance so I definitely agree with that. :)

I'll take a look at yours, I already did the Mailpile bit.

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