Determine Required Features For Chat Client

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Determine Required Features For Chat Client #6

Closed luccacabra closed 10 months ago

luccacabra commented 6 years ago

This issue is meant to serve as a collaboration ground for coming up with a finite list of feature requirements we want/need from a chat client. We'll then use that list to drive our client decision.

Current List of Requirements

Ability to create sub-groups within a parent austin-devops group
Free
Chat history retention

Ideas/Wants

Ability to export chat history
emojis - prooobably not a requirement, but they're really nice to have around to help set the tone of conversations, provide consolidate-able responses (thinking emoji reactions), etc...essentially they make the experience more human

luccacabra commented 6 years ago

The first thing I'd like to discuss is whether or not we need infinite chat history. It's definitely a nice feature to have, but is there a really compelling reason to require it? And if there is, is there a compelling reason to need that history in the chat client (instead of exporting it to an indexable outside data store)?

Also, @jjasghar would love for you to post here why your vote is for freenode over other chat clients. I think it'd outline a lot of the things we want from a chat client

jjasghar commented 6 years ago

I'm using Freenode as a catch-all for "IRC."

freenode has been around since, 1995 and multiple opensource communities still rely on it day in and day out. It is free and there are multiple free services that can track the history like botbot.me that can save our history.

Slack/Modern collaborative real-time chat clients have come and gone, IRC has been around since the beginning. :)

(IIRC, Slack is actually bulilt upon IRC's frame work, and you can connect via IRC to Slack )

moutons commented 10 months ago

closing, as we seem to have been doing well using hangops' #atxdevops as the chatroom of the group for quite some time now. if it comes up again we'll see what happens then, I suppose.