Inspired by a recent post about Linen https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248488#33253157
What is used, why? What's good? What's bad?
Poll: Which Chat Solution Does Your Company Use
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#2Zulip has a brilliant threading model (ability to move messages between threads after the fact) but the UI is not something you could recommend to a non-technical user.. yet. I really hope they improve it.
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#3No IRC?!
At my last production plant, we used internal IRC server for the factory floor (export controlled) to cut/paste between test stations, cant use most cloud chat for export controlled data.
Also another internal IRC for the NOC and systems admins, mostly since its been up for a decade+.
But mostly teams.
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#4Rocket.Chat
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#5discourse.org
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#6Would "Microsoft" be Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, or both?
We migrated off Skype to Teams. Cisco Webex Teams, that is. :(
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#7We used RocketChat for a few years, but switched to Matrix/Dendrite/Element a couple of weeks ago since no one was really happy with RC.
Had a few weird bugs with Matrix (Probably Dendrite's fault) but so far everyone seems happy.
Element has become surprisingly snappy the last few years.
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#8Don't forget Amazon Chime (though I doubt any other company was foolish enough to adopt it)!
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#9We use Google because a VP has a hardon for Google. It’s not good. Threading is garbage, there are limited text formatting options, and some of them don’t work right all the time (code blocks don’t work if you’re copy/pasting text that has a format applied, like bold or colored text, for instance). I like the Google video calls for the simple interface, but I dislike that the chat doesn’t save.
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#10We use teams, which is less than ideal. I'd like to suggest we transition to matrix, but I'm not sure how to broach the subject.