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Parley: Federated, decentralised chat that speaks plain IRC

330 points · 190 comments · davidcollantes

  1. Conlectus · · focus · HN ↗
    There’s a specific downside to LLM-based development that people can get neck deep in a new project without interfacing with the existing work in the field.

    In this case, this is basically a poorly specified implementation of half of XMPP. Of course, I half expect the LLM would have mentioned that at some point, but the repository does not.

    1. dale_glass · · focus · HN ↗
      Unfortunately XMPP is an absolutely terrible protocol. IRC's not much good either, but at least it has the excuse of being ancient and limited in what it wanted to achieve.

      I don't know how it just happens that sending text messages to people can manage to result in specs that are painful to implement.

      1. oooyay · · focus · HN ↗
        IRC is good in that it is open, durable, and slow moving. All of those points are intentional features that make it a stable cockroach in a nuclear world.

        I briefly entertained building a modern chat experience on top of IRC when I came to this realization.

        1. thinkmassive · · focus · HN ↗
          Slack was originally a side project built by a game dev company as a set of scripts on top of IRC. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Slack_(software)#History" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Slack_(software)#History
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