Campfire: Web-Based Chat Application

Crazy how early they were with this, how talented the tech team, and how poorly it did. Would love to read a post mortem on what went wrong.

I recall it being slow, with frequent downtime, poor mardown support, and having very poor (or nonexistent? can’t remember exactly) first party non-web clients. I vaguely recall some third party apps picking up the slack (pun!), but integration was pretty basic (they did their best).

It basically stagnated like it was abandon, and then hipchat (atlassian bought and killed it) and later slack just ate its lunch.

As DHH would say, Luxury languages are good for development.