[kwlug-disc] Does anyone want to take over Thunderbird?

[Nick Guenther]

On December 4, 2015 1:32:52 PM EST, Paul Nijjar <paul_nijjar at yahoo.ca> wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 01, 2015 at 06:36:10PM -
>
>I still don't get the appeal of Slack, but I can think of ways that
>such a tool might be useful in our organization. So I am interested in
>learning a little bit about the FLOSS alternatives.

Ugh, it's just IRC with Web 3.0 features.

Chatrooms are great.  That's the appeal.  It has nothing to do with Slack, intrinsically. It's just that all other chatrooms are obscure or ugly.  No business exec is going to use tinychat or, sadly, despite all the work they put into it, XMPP conferences, and IRC clients are unpretty and also have some strange ideas about security and those terse little status flags. With Slack, people aren't going to give up their auto-embedded web content now without a fight. I worry that people who've never used a proper collaboration platform (like git or a network fs---Dropbox can count here), throwing documents up inline in chatrooms will become a norm, the same way doing that with email did.

So does mattermost open an IRC port?  That I would be interested in.  But I would also need a better IRC client for android than I currently have...