Ask HN: When you have production issues, what chat application do you use?
Want to know what fellow HN'ers use -
1.) When you have a production issue going on ( and if you ever do production support), what chat application do you use ?
2.) Do you wish there was a better application than the one you already use ?
3.) If you do, does it have capability to put attachments, etc. inside it and store the timeline for post mortem ?
<p>I've not found one, which is stable, can be used internally(security concerns) and has the above. I'll start building one if I don't find one. One last check before I dive in.
Please let me know if you have any inputs.
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1) Usually use Skype.
2) Yes -- chat-wise Skype is absolutely fine though
3) I would love the ability to have longer term centralized storage of the chats with a decent search engine and the ability to have scripts post stuff as well.
As far as I can tell the best alternative is setting up an IRC service: it'll run within your corporate environment if you must, easy to integrate deployment scripts into (&c) and there is a lot of archiving/search apps already.
Thanks ojilles. I like the idea of IRC, never came to my mind !
Check out this slidedeck from Flickr, see slide 108 and further:
http://www.slideshare.net/jallspaw/operational-efficiency-ha...
No access from office, have stored for reading later. I also found some great XMPP/jabber bases services I'm going to explore.
Have you seen Holla? (http://github.com/maccman/holla or http://getholla.com)
I haven't used it, but seems like a open source competitor to Campfire (which is awesome).
Good write up on GigaOM http://gigaom.com/collaboration/holla-an-open-source-group-c...
That seems great ! Thanks bgraves.
see campfire - http://campfirenow.com/
Sounds like a good tool, but again, it can't be installed inside the network..