Gregory's Server@miah Did all your business users in the company, CEO and all other executives and sales etc, use IRC?
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 @ripienaar For a time Bank Simple was amazing, one of the best jobs of my career... up until our buyout =) We tried to keep things great then, and in many ways we got better, but in so many others we got much much worse.  @miah @ripienaar My heart goes out to y’all, I was a customer for years up until the bitter end. It was always clear the love and care that went into the product. @miah @ripienaar I *really* wanted to have our whole 50-60 head company on our Gitlab enterprice license since we were trying to get more people engaged in the PO meetings. Unfortunately pricing just wouldn't work out. Enterprise productivity tools like that need a "guest pass" seat tier or something so we can at least get our whole directory taggable from the discussion tools or something. @ripienaar I don’t see why they couldn’t? There are significantly more arcane systems (e.g. SAP) in common use. @ripienaar @Serenus I think most people in "tech" ran a simple command line irc client, while everybody else ran the Mac Colloquy. We had a standard of "no Windows" on the server network, and after buyout our new "compliance" broke that rule, ripped out our slapd and replaced it with Active Directory. |
@ripienaar Yes, everybody was on irc. We all chatted regularly. The shift happened more than a year after we got bought out.
Similarly everybody was on our github enterprise. I could tag _anybody_ in the company, and we all had access to repos. It wasn't uncommon for somebody from a different department to send in a PR to fix something that was bothering them. I patched some text on our web app while I worked in ops (weird gendering of things that didnt need it).