Our workplace uses Campfire for its group chat. We get everything in there from water cooler discussions to build messages.
It was awesome at first, and quickly started to get very annoying once our numbers grew from 4 to 8. The constant interruptions became quite distracting, with Growl continually notifying me of every bit of banter that might need attention.
Upgrading to Leopard meant I could apply a hack to get better growl notifications.
Since we had started to refer to each other by initial in the chatroom, I modified the script to only pop up a notification when I was concerned.
It’s only been an hour so far, but I don’t feel the need to compulsively check the room anymore - what a relief.
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Upgrading to Leopard you mean.
D’oh - fixed, thanks!
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Someone has also put together an app that lets you use Jabber with Campfire.
Duncan - thanks for the comment. That could work a whole lot better, with a single software install on a server, and each user only needing to add a bot to their contact list!
This seems to work fine for me:
http://www.robbyonrails.com/articles/2008/03/05/campfire-messages-in-growl
Even with Fluid, I would prefer using my script:
http://pastie.caboo.se/161844
I don’t want to get notifications every time someone talks, only when it concerns me.
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