Notes

Similar projects / inspiration

• https://www.nayego.net/
• 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/ has a heavy focus on message threads/topics
• 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)
• Comparison table of digitial communications protocols
• https://tildeverse.org/
• https://weho.st (similar to Kosmos services/accounts idea)
• https://snikket.org
• https://quill.chat (centralized and proprietary, but interesting UX ideas for threads, moving messages, and notifications)

Infrastructure

IRC

• IRCv3 Specifications

Sockethub / node.js

• http://www.jayway.com/2015/04/13/600k-concurrent-websocket-connections-on-aws-using-node-js

ActivityStreams2 & Data Formats

• Exploring 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