Instant Messaging for Teams

Stop the email validation madness.<p><a href="http://davidcel.is/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-addresses-with-regex/" rel="nofollow">http://davidcel.is/blog/2012/09/06/stop-validating-email-add...</a><p>Fix this, and I'll try it out.<p>I tried: myname+tesla.im@gmail.com I got: 'Enter a valid email'<p>edit: can I get some commentary to season the down-voting?

Please, please, <i>please</i> check your email validation... Disallowing + notation doesn't make sense, and I for one won't sign up for a service that doesn't allow it. <a href="http://i.imgur.com/xfVDKyL.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/xfVDKyL.png</a><p><pre><code> The local part may consist of alphabetic and numeric characters, and the following characters: !, #, $, %, &#38;, ', *, +, -, /, =, ?, ^, _, `, {, |, } and ~, possibly with dot separators (.), inside, but not at the start, end or next to another dot separator (RFC2822 3.2.4). </code></pre> More at <a href="https://gist.github.com/EHLOVader/4531693" rel="nofollow">https://gist.github.com/EHLOVader/4531693</a>

Call me old-fashioned, but I like to make informed decisions before signing up for something – so where are the specs?<p><pre><code> - What sort of encryption is used where? - How is this encryption ‘enforced’? - How are messages stored/logged and accessible to whom? - How highly available are these services? - How are users authenticated? - What limitations exist for use on tablets? - … </code></pre> Just calling something ‘real geeky’ and throwing out some buzzwords is…well, insufficient to convince me.<p>Edit: added ‘to convince me’

I like how you don't make me register to check it out.<p>That's a really great thing to do.<p>But you almost make it tricky to figure out how to register (by making me go to settings then click edit next to my name).

Here are some things that I've realized are must haves for modern team chat:<p>- Email messages when someone is mentioned but are offline<p>- Integration with source control, CI, and issue tracking systems being used, targeted by channel/group<p>- Ability to filter channels by conversation/users (includes some way to attach and track conversation topics on messages in the same channel)<p>- Web app with desktop notifications and ability to mute those notifications by type<p>Do the hard work of making these <i>easy</i> to configure and use, and you may be able to compete with hipchat/campfire/etc.

This problem has been solved 100 different ways; offline with plenty of clients throughout the years and even online with Google chat and Facebook messenger.<p>What is your "different way"? What makes your solution more valuable? There is not enough of a pitch on the front page to get me to try it out.

So its, 2013, and they're explicitly avoiding XMPP compatibility? Doesn't anyone learn?

You mean IRC?

I... couldn't figure out how to register. What's an email id? Why does the register button get stuck at "auth"?

Good design is almost invisible.