One critical thing I recently learned -- Hipchat is run exclusively out of Amazon's US-East region. If you're using Hipchat for anything operational, make sure you aren't also exclusively in US-East. Otherwise, if there is a region-wide issue in Us-East, you're gonna have a bad time.
HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
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Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#12does anyone know the legality of using/modifying a movie poster in that way?
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#13Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
The thing that is nice about Hipchat, it pains me to say, is that messages actually get delivered the moment you send them. Skype is completely unpredictable.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#14Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
Pros: search logs, other integrations
Cons: no phone calls! which I use quite a bit. free for teams bigger than 5.
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#15Standard Atlassian MO for all of their products. They get you by having what would be a fairly small team in your company (usually 5 people) using their product and they are the trojan horse that then makes you end up purchasing a license.
That sounds like it's either an unclear arrangement ('trojan horse') or a bad thing ('makes you end up purchasing'). Atlassian makes great products and, if your team/company grows to the size where you need to pay, the cost is far less than the value of time saved. Sometimes, it's worth avoiding the hassle of free/open-source projects for critical tools.
I say this is a very happy paying Atlassian paying customer.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#16One critical thing I recently learned -- Hipchat is run exclusively out of Amazon's US-East region. If you're using Hipchat for anything operational, make sure you aren't also exclusively in US-East. Otherwise, if there is a region-wide issue in Us-East, you're gonna have a bad time.
Great point. But speaking from experience, if you're using Us-East exclusively, you're [eventually] gonna have a bad time anyways...
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#17Six people are $12 a month. Five people are $0 a month.
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#18One critical thing I recently learned -- Hipchat is run exclusively out of Amazon's US-East region. If you're using Hipchat for anything operational, make sure you aren't also exclusively in US-East. Otherwise, if there is a region-wide issue in Us-East, you're gonna have a bad time.
Great point. But speaking from experience, if you're using Us-East exclusively, you're [eventually] gonna have a bad time anyways...
This is very true. :)
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#19does anyone know the legality of using/modifying a movie poster in that way?
Re: HipChat is now free for teams of 5 users or fewer
#20Aside from the phone applications, what makes Hipchat better than say, Skype?
It's essentially pretty IRC. What makes it better than IRC is a better question. The answer is that you don't have to setup and maintain an IRC server, and have the power of bots through APIs.
The other answer is that it's a lot easier to get less-technical people onto it.