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Some teams might have sensitive information that they don't want up somewhere they can't control.

Slack has also been banned in China at times.

The claim is true.

Source: helped write it

Original author here. I started the project in my early 20s when I had lots of free time. Slack didn't really exist back then and the other web based chat offerings weren't great (our company used Campfire).

I gradually stopped working on it as I got busier in both work and life. Part of me regrets not spinning it off as a company, especially after seeing RocketChat take off over the last couple years (we inspired them!).

The company I work for has been offering an enterprise level service like for about 8 years now: https://www.securitycompass.com/sdelements/

Let's Chat is actually three years old :P

Hah, this is awesome to hear. Are you using it with ldap/kerberos auth?

Any particular reason why you were put off by mongo?

WOW, this has been missing from my life for way too long!

Thank you :D

Oh weird, what browsing are you using?

Yea it's something we're thinking about. Right now we just assume it'll be ran somewhere internet-aware.

Can you do me a huge favour and file a PR in github? https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat/issues

Ah great, thanks!

Hey if you're IRC-foo is crazy good, it'd be amazing if you helped us out! Think about it, you could be internet batman.

Possibly. I think it'll be a while before we do any audio/video stuff.

We're actually just two guys with full time jobs and this is our "10% Time" at work, so our time is a little strained.

I'm hoping to get some pull requests from strangers which I've heard are the best kind of pull requests!

You're pretty great yourself :D

That's actually really neat!

Yup, Let's Chat uses Gravatar!

Damn. What's wrong with Hacker News today? Everyone is being amazing!

I was hoping the fork ribbon and source code link would be enough. I'll look into adding something more explicit though.

Haha, fixed. Thanks for bringing it up :P

Damn, I can't tell you how awesome this makes me feel.

Is your service open source or public?

Yup, it's in the works for the next release.

That looks pretty neat.

Also +1 for having a demo!

I mean, you can always fork it :)

It's mainly for XMPP (room slugs are used as the identifiers there).

Also try typing in #ROOMNAME in the textbox! You can link to rooms like that.

Is Kandan still actively developed? Doesn't seem like there's been anything new for a couple of years.

Thanks!

Private is pretty much first on our list for the next release. We use hangouts as well and it's definitely a pain point to juggle multiple apps.

Yea I know, adorably hilarious!

Thanks, this means a lot to us :)

We're around Adelaide and University, not too far from your neck of the woods!

It was definitely a UI problem for us. I don't think the underlying protocol matters much, we could have used IRC.