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Slack also has webhooks/bots that interact with other services for notifications... pingdom, github, etc... which can be done with bots, but it gets more complicated. Not to mention search archives, file upload preservation and other display niceties.

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I don't personally use it, but this might help your https://hubot.github.com/

Careful, that has basically zero in the way of authorization/authentication. Putting business logic in there on a standard deploy is asking for trouble, especially if malicious accounts have access.

I use ejabberd as chat server and as interface to hubot. Solves both authentication and backlog issues. With a ssh tunnel (or your choice of vpn), it also solves out of network access. Jabber and ssh clients exist for Android (and iOS I presume)

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