Am I missing something or is "collaborative chat" a pleonasm? Unless you count monologues as valid use cases for a chat application...
means it's not 1:1 chat mainly, like skype, msn or similar. it's many rooms with many people, mainly. like irc
How does this compare to hipchat? It looks very similar.
Hipchat is hosted and you pay them monthly. This has the ASP.net source that you can host yourself.
It runs on Mono too.
JabbR is open source and is highly active. Pull requests are accepted relatively quickly.
why not simply use jabber and its buildin conference rooms? i don't see the point to use a web app (which normaly runs in a web browser) to chat. a standalone chat application/programm can better fit the usage of its user. notifications from a website are ignored or annoys the hell out of me.
It's irc on steroids. Very cool.
Why not use irc?
Why use irc?
Irc clients are faster and more featured than web apps.
Also, you can have bots.
There's bots in JabbR too
There is a client library that makes it easy to write JabbR bots in .NET/Mono: