Chapp – IRC alternative

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4 points·rayalez··4 comments

Yay! Just what the world needs is another proprietary closed source chat system. Assuming its closed anyway, nothing yields source on Google, and the actual web site is down.

IRC works just fine.

Just out of curiosity - would you be interested in open source chat similar to this one, made with pytnon?

What would it take for people to switch from IRC to a website like this?

Are there some pain points of IRC that can be solved?

Because personally I like chapp a lot more than irc, and I would be happy to use a system like this, especially if it gets more developed/popular. I think it can be a lot more beautiful, have a lot of cool features, and open irc to more mainstream communities.

So I'm wondering, is everyone in tech community averse to this and will prefer to use IRC, or is there a space for a startup here?

I only work on F/OSS and spend my entire day on Freenode, so I don't think really I have a need for anything else.

A lot of people rave about Slack, and I think it's very unfortunate its a very closed platform.

There's already http://www.mattermost.org/ a open source alternative, which I haven't tried.

Please don't post dismissive swipes in response to new work. It's fine to raise questions or make substantive criticisms, but when someone has made something new, it's not necessary to trample it. The creative process deserves respect, even if you don't personally approve of what they're making.

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