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I had a 2-week temporary gig at another place (was going perm, but I got a much better offer from the current gig at the last minute).

They used Hipchat, and it was neat - my coworkers there greeted me with inline memes. Having to use a proprietary client sucked, though.




Actually just went through this exact situation last week. Temporary gig seeing if I made a good fit, didn't like the contract they wanted me to sign.

I just set up bitlbee to do XMPP in irssi. Hipchat is accessible via XMPP. Lots of little annoying quirks but it was better than nothing.


Hipchat ain't bad; the place when I got to use it was a 3-week temporary gig for me (they needed additional programmer for emergency fixes). The places where I was actually employed all used Skype, and "bearable" is the best I can say about it.

I think the best solution would be a Hipchat/Slack-like IRC client.




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