[Discuss] What (free software) options are people using for chat?

[dsr at randomstring.org (Dan Ritter)]

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:46:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Thu, 19 May 2016 09:19:54 -0400
> john saylor <js0000 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > /join
> > 
> > On 05/18/16 20:43, Greg Rundlett (freephile) wrote:
> > > It's remarkable that IRC still exists after all these years.  
> > 
> > plain text chat still allows humans to communicate effectively with
> > each other. and also the minimal display capability required of
> > clients [plain text] makes it very flexible [and unix friendly].
> > 
> > people just keep usin' it!
> 
> But John, IRC is ancient. It's ugly plain text. It should be replaced
> by a system, from Freedesktop.org, that replaces IRC's simple API with
> something more modern and complex: Something that integrates completely
> with your Facebook account, and requires Gnome on the server end.

No, get with the program: all remote systems administration should be
done via chatbot. Your init system will start a server listening for
dbus messages, which will be the native chat protocol of the future.

-dsr-