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Similar projects / inspiration
- http://ircanywhere.com
- https://www.waartaa.com
- https://kiwiirc.com
- https://www.irccloud.com
- http://shout-irc.com -> https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/
- Let's Chat on Sandstorm
- https://gitter.im
- http://chat.stackoverflow.com
- https://chatgrape.com/ (good input field ideas)
- https://moose-team.github.io/friends/
- https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway
- https://conversejs.org
- http://qoffee.io
- http://neovim.org (bounties for features)
- http://web.scrollback.io very similar in goals, open-source, claims to be used by a lot of different groups, has funding and appears to be hiring.
- http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/
- http://www.matrix.org/
- https://web.telegram.org
- https://www.zulip.org/
- https://blog.okturtles.com/2015/11/five-open-source-slack-alternatives/
- https://discordapp.com/
- https://github.com/haadcode/orbit (based on IPFS)
- https://spideroak.com/solutions/semaphor/tour
- http://meetfranz.com/
- https://getkaiwa.com/ (chat app based entirely on XMPP)
- https://movim.eu/ (social network plus chat plus newsreader, based on XMPP)
Infrastructure
IRC
Sockethub / node.js
ActivityStreams2 & Data Formats
Notifications
Social WG wants to standardize "inboxes"
Bridges
- IRC to XMPP: https://biboumi.louiz.org/
Random
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/IRC
- https://medium.com/better-people/slack-i-m-breaking-up-with-you-54600ace03ea#.pkgn64u78
- https://medium.com/@tedlivingston/the-future-of-chat-isn-t-ai-b07f65bc252#.l6uuclx1j
- https://m.signalvnoise.com/is-group-chat-making-you-sweat-744659addf7d#.84khiir04
- https://blog.agilebits.com/2016/04/19/curing-our-slack-addiction/
- http://about.psyc.eu/ ("PSYC is, as benchmarks show, the fastest yet extensible text-based protocol we are aware of, providing a messaging infrastructure for human conversation and social exchange of possibly binary data.")
Organizations currently using IRC
- Canonical
- Mozilla
- 5apps
