Real-time interaction forum

[Stefan van der Walt]

Hi Michael

On 2014-06-11 11:31:56, Michael Aye <kmichael.aye at gmail.com> wrote:
> would you care to share what you disliked with gitter.im? I'm asking b/c 
> I'm also looking for a less posty, more chatty exchange forum for my 
> projects, and since github is providing free private repos for scientists, 
> I'm doing more and more (and more) on github, so I thought a chat client 
> that links github projects to chat rooms is a fantastic idea. So what's 
> wrong with it? ;)

I think Gitter will be fine in a few months from now--but specifically,
I wanted IRC integration and notifications to Android/iOS.  Their IRC
integration is currently in alpha and does not work, and the Android
client is still on the roadmap.

Now that we have IRC logs (http://bit.ly/skimage-irc, thanks to Stuart
Mumford), and since I've figured out that there are free persistent
connection proxies out there (see e.g. https://yourbnc.co.uk/) as well
as a reasonable Android client
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=xerodox.liteirc) IRC
satisfies all my requirements.

As always, though, the conversation remains open.  But in the meantime
we at least have a place we can chat :)

Stéfan