Show HN: Echoplexus – An OSS alternative to Hipchat, Flowdock, and others

echoplex.us

51 points·arcameron··13 comments

Thanks for this ^

Code @ https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

Vision @ https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus/issues?labels=enhancement...

Really nice! Kudos!

I am working in a non-technical non-profit organization and I'd love to see something like etherpad integrated in this. No REPL, but simply only writing texts collaboratively.

Someone going wild on the whiteboard just DOSed my browser. :)

Tried on Firefox 21.0/Ubuntu and it didn't work. Works fine in Chromium.

Works on my Firefox/Ubuntu 12.04

This looks like a great project. I hope it grows and gets widely adopted.

why is this not using xmpp?

i am sure there are reasons to dislike xmpp but throwing out more than a decade of standardization effort without even a word is a bit difficult to understand.

It started off as just a way to play around with socket.io, but eventually ended up as a bit more. Can you do true anonymity with no-signups with XMPP? I don't know a lot about it, but I'll definitely look into it!

Please don't use XMPP, pick something sane if you wish to standardize.

If you are interested in what you ask about, Jappix is such an alternative I discovered a while ago when curious about distributed social networks other than Diaspora.

Potentially NSFW

Ahh the timeless warning of the Internet.

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