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There is a very-well developed multi-person JS chat: http://www.mibbit.com/

With great cross-browser compatibility and rich functionality like file uploads and in-line previews you can't go wrong. Uses certain well established IM transport protocol that plays nice with your text-mode IM client ;-)

Yes, you can embed it on your website. Either ad-supported or paid-for.



It seems you missed the part where he said "teach people how to use IRC (yeah right)".

The frontpage of mibbit is an instant "close-tab" to a non-nerd user.


You can just link directly to a server/chatroom on mibbit. No need for your users to ever see their frontpage.


Their chat-interface isn't better either.

Honestly, would you send a mibbit link in a professional context to an non-nerd contact?

Well, that was a rhetoric question... The colors are terrible, the whole thing looks like a relic from the 90s and there's way too much tech exposed.


It's IM that uses the right transport protocol. GUI matters to users, and that's plain IM GUI.

Fixed my earlier post.


finch (a text mode client) should support xmpp (both as a well established IM protocol as well as a underrepresented multi user chat protocol) just fine. ;-)




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