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Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

#1
There’s HipChat Server. However, since Atlassian launched Stride, I fear HipChat will fall behind.

My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub. We’d love to pay and have a phone number to call if things go south.

End-to-end-encryption (as in: DB admin cannot read anything) would be a plus, of course.

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#2
Mattermost, works quite good. It is also pretty simple to set up and deploy.

[0]: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server

EDIT: just read your post entireley.

>> 'My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub'

So that one is not what you are looking for. But I keep the post in case anyone is interested in it...

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

#3
Were using Zulip. Before that we used Mattermost but we migrated to Zulip because of its (in our opinion) superior conversation threading model and never looked back.

Mattermost, Slack, etc. all work fine when you work on a project basis but when you work on a lot of short lived operational issues (for example "Issue with invoice XYZ" Slacks conversational threading model breaks down quite fast. At least it did for us.

iirc there is also a paid hosted version of Zulip but I don't know that for sure.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

#4
post #2

Mattermost, works quite good. It is also pretty simple to set up and deploy. [0]: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server EDIT: just read your post entireley. >> 'My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub' So that one is not what you are looking for. But I keep the post in case anyone is interested in it...

Nobody runs a SaaS for Mattermost?

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

#6
post #3

Were using Zulip. Before that we used Mattermost but we migrated to Zulip because of its (in our opinion) superior conversation threading model and never looked back. Mattermost, Slack, etc. all work fine when you work on a project basis but when you work on a lot of short lived operational issues (for example "Issue with invoice XYZ" Slacks conversational threading model breaks down quite fast. At least it did for u…

The hosted version is free for FLOSS projects and has a premium option: https://zulipchat.com/plans/.

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

#7
post #4
post #2

Mattermost, works quite good. It is also pretty simple to set up and deploy. [0]: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server EDIT: just read your post entireley. >> 'My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub' So that one is not what you are looking for. But I keep the post in case anyone is interested in it...

Nobody runs a SaaS for Mattermost?

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Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

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post #5

microsoft teams

I'll second this. While it's not self-hosted, it is the only SAAS option that's actually usable in regulated industries. The main consideration is that the api is slightly different and some integrations aren't as nice (Looking at you PagerDuty)

Re: Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?

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post #6
post #3

Were using Zulip. Before that we used Mattermost but we migrated to Zulip because of its (in our opinion) superior conversation threading model and never looked back. Mattermost, Slack, etc. all work fine when you work on a project basis but when you work on a lot of short lived operational issues (for example "Issue with invoice XYZ" Slacks conversational threading model breaks down quite fast. At least it did for u…

The hosted version is free for FLOSS projects and has a premium option: https://zulipchat.com/plans/ .

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