GlobalChat 2
Swift and Ruby based Enterprise Chat System
a non-technical feeling but powerful chat for private teams with useful features to help productivity
simple protocol
"It actually looks like there has not been that radical development on the chat systems during the last decade. I find that surprising given all the areas where improvements could be made." - Jarkko Oikarinen, Inventor Of IRC
Try to do what IRC founder said and improve chat. Really improve.
New features not found in IRC Protocol:
persistent log with buffer replay
send multiple lines in a message, no need for Pastie/Gist/PasteBin/etc
roomless, single server design
few commands
send anything, handle can be anything too
written entirely in Ruby and now also has a OS X Swift client
end to end encryption of private messages