#sameroom

[ant757x]

#text #laugh #sameroom https://www.instagram.com/p/B72B8XUAjhW/?igshid=1f3ymph8oqcks

[sol-angeles21]

🎶I watched the ted talk on heartbreak...He had a smart person accent...he said dont look at the photos ... and then i looked at our photos ………🎶

🎶We can’t even be in the same room, my friends are making sure i don’t see you🎶

Same Room- JP Saxe

[jbdubya3030]

Come play

Come play with us this weekend. No singles please. Looking for a couple for same couple same room

[thegentlesoul]

Tired but thankful! 😊 Today's flight was a challenging one. Challenging your patience, your energy and all. But that's what makes us good in this industry. Cuz we can still keep up despite a long day! 😊 #crewlife #afterflightbelike #hongkong #sameroom 😒 hahaha (at Hong Kong)

[fuckyeahtattoos]

Not really a tattoo-related post, but I wanted to do a little write-up on an extremely helpful app I stumbled upon. It’s called Sameroom. 

My company uses Slack for employee communication, and it’s amazing. Not having to deal with constant one-off emails about things that don’t actually pertain to me is the absolute best. But there’s one drawback: my friends, SO, and other companies we work with use Google Hangouts/Skype/Facebook messenger to talk to me during the work day. I HATE switching between multiple messaging apps (on a normal day it’s around 5-6 separate clients). Usually I end up missing an important message or have a delayed response to something I want to reply to immediately. 

This is where Sameroom comes into play and is a complete game-changer for me. Sameroom is a company that “speaks all the protocols.” For me, this means I can integrate my Google Hangout and Facebook messenger conversations INSIDE of Slack (my main chat-client), so I never have to swap between them. It’s customizable so it can be set up in any way you see fit. My company usually has around 10-20 projects involving external parties at a time, which can lead to a communication nightmare. With Sameroom, we have the ability to integrated their preferred chat client into our own with an extremely painless process.

You can check out more information on their website, or watch this short overview video to get a better understanding! -Matt

[trinh-zikwon91]

I think this is zico's macbook!

[shutthedord]

Let Me Tell You About Sameroom

Edit: Since I posted this, sameroom removed the personal-use tier (the prices are now calibrated to corporate levels). Unfortunately, that makes this recommendation obsolete. I'm leaving it up anyway for historical reasons.

tl;dr: http://sameroom.io will connect an IRC channel to a Skype group to a Google hangout to a Facebook chat to...

N.B. I promise I'm not being paid for this. I did not even get linked to this by anyone; I found it in a Google search. I just discovered it today and thought it was awesome.

One of the things I've observed, being a sort of unofficial organizing-thing-type-person, is that sometimes groups can't agree on which chat service to use. Replay Value AU sorta oscillated back and forth between an IRC channel (where I originally made it) and a Skypegroup for the few years of its existence, and I know of at least two other groups that are split exactly the same way.

This is perfectly reasonable. After all, IRC has a plethora of web clients so you don't ever need to install anything or sign up for anything to use it, but doesn't keep backscroll. Skype has backscroll, but requires you to install a native client (and to me it feels a bit shifty having to pour a binary blob into my system just for a chat client, me being a desktop Linux user). But it results in groups where the community ebbs and flows back and forth between an IRC channel and a Skype group, because even though I'm a person who can gather quite a bit of influence, I can't make a service have features it doesn't have.

Sameroom is a service that lets me fix that.

(I'd have done it myself, but messing with computers on that level doesn't really feed my soul in the same way writing and music do. I can do coding and such, but it's not inherently interesting to me.)

Basically, it replicates messages between any two chatrooms on different services. (And it supports a lot of different services, although most of them are ones I've never heard of.)

This seems like a little thing, sure. But interoperability is huge! Skype doesn't let you export stuff, much less constantly link groups to some other service. Google Hangouts is nice, but I still miss when I could use an XMPP client rather than having to open a browser window. (Google, if you could get me a native desktop client for Hangouts - not even an open-source one - that would be great, thanks.)

And... well, it's also that as one of those people who has really looked into copyright and the Internet and suchlike, interoperability is super important to me as a principle. For those of you who have only ever used Tumblr, it's a bit like Xkit. Tumblr hates it, but it's something you absolutely have the right to use. And what happened to Xkit might happen to a service like this as it gets bigger - Skype might deliberately screw up its client more in an effort to stop this, but there's not actually a way they can stop it, either.

Right now Sameroom's got a rate-limited (30 messages/hour) free service, and if you pay $9/month you get three unlimited tubes.

I'm generally a cheapskate, but paying for this one was a no-brainer.