Add threading support

[charliewolf]

This is an implementation of what @lewellyn suggested in #47 to allow users to use threading via IRC.

[danpopp]

👍

[thmzlt]

I spent the day using the IRC gateway with this code instead of the web app and it worked well. Two things I noticed:

• I can't see the ID of a thread initiated by me until I get a reply. It would be nice if the gateway returned the ID right after I sent the first message.
• The <123456> prefix is a bit cumbersome to type. To alleviate that, I would use a single delimiter (e.g. .) and convert the ID to a larger base. For example, instead of <303132> hello!, one could send .6hwc hello! (with radix 36).

[charliewolf]

@thmzlt You should be able to see the ID without waiting for a reply. Try a different IRC client? Works on ChatZilla.

Any idea on the best way to implement the radix?

[thmzlt]

You should be able to see the ID without waiting for a reply.

Good point. I was using irssi.

Any idea on the best way to implement the radix?

You can convert an integer to/from a different base using #to_i and #to_s:

[junosuarez]

This feature would be superduper amazing :) 🐈 🌵 🍰

[tzz]

Suggestion: in addition to <ID> accept ~ MESSAGE for "last thread", ~tzz MESSAGE for "last thread with user tzz", ~~ MESSAGE for "last thread in which I participated", and !2 MESSAGE for "the second previous thread."

This is literally the only thing forcing me and others to use the GUI Flowdock client.

[junosuarez]

Is there any interest from flowdock in merging this? Any outstanding concerns? I see that this repo continues to receive new commits. This feature would be very useful to me and I'd like to help if I can.

[junosuarez]

bump

[milanaleksic]

Can we please merge this? Although I am not the author of this PR, I am for quite some time already using it on my machine without issues, so I don't know why we don't have it upstream. Without this oulu is not that usable

[junosuarez]

To update my earlier comments on this thread, my team no longer needs this PR since we are switching to Slack, which has excellent IRC support.

[coldpour]

I'm sorry guys, but the flowdock team is no longer supporting oulu. You are welcome to fork and run your own server. We'd even be willing to point people to your fork if you'd like. IRC has just been deprioritized. I'm sorry for not following up sooner.

[trezy]

@coldpour Would the Flowdock team be willing, then, to transfer ownership of this repository to it's own organization so that the community could then continue managing it?