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Apocryphon on May 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Slack is down

Proposal: a backup chat system for running buildbots and other Slack integrations in the event that Slack goes down?

theandrewbailey on May 21, 2018 [–]

It would be great if there was a decentralized (maybe federated) realtime chat protocol.

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direction534 on May 21, 2018 | [–]

Perhaps we could build it on a block chain. Messages on the blockchain. Perfect.

theandrewbailey on May 21, 2018 | | [–]

And wait up to 10 minutes for a ChatCoin transaction to go through? Ain't no one got time for that!

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