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HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by tomkin »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #5

Slack surely is putting HipChat on its toes. Competition is really good. I use and enjoy HipChat. The feature I love about it is the ability to temporarily invite someone (edit: a non organization person) to a room. It would be nice if it was possible to have it open all day and have it like an IRC. It would be perfect for having support rooms for an app. One thing i'd like HipChat to improve on is the timeout that h…

> The feature I love about it is the ability to invite someone to a room.

Wow. Groundbreaking stuff here. There were chatroom perl scripts in 1998 that did this.

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by adricnet »

joeblau wrote: post #3

HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That's why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.

Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by saiko-chriskun »

adricnet wrote: post #13
joeblau wrote: post #3

HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That's why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.

Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.

www.google.com

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by davidkuridza »

adricnet wrote: post #13
joeblau wrote: post #3

HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That's why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.

Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.

https://slack.com/

We switched from HipChat recently, so far it's working fine. The only thing we miss are cross team notifications, but apparently they are working on it (can't find the link at the moment).

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by bmelton »

adricnet wrote: post #13
joeblau wrote: post #3

HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That's why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.

Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.

Not the OP, but here's a link: https://slack.com/

I've used it, and it seems pretty good, but I don't have enough time behind the wheel to provide a review.

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by ChikkaChiChi »

I just recently compared Slack and Hipchat and Slack seems to be the more advanced of the two at this point.

The magic bullet in collaborative chat like this seems to be presence awareness. We used to use GTalk for this but since moving to hangouts we can't ever tell who is at there desk when we need them.

Here's to hoping one of them gets it right; especially when you install on your desktop and your mobile device.

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by IbJacked »

adricnet wrote: post #13
joeblau wrote: post #3

HipChat is probably under fire from Slack. That's why I think they are making this change, because I just made the transition a few weeks ago and Slack has been amazing. Once you go Slack, you never go back.

Would you mind linking to the competing service you mention, or perhaps a review of it? I've been advocating for Hipchat but haven't seen Slack yet.

Since I've only dabbled with it I can't provide a proper review, but the link is https://slack.com/

Re: HipChat is now free for unlimited users

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Post by baddox »

OoTheNigerian wrote: post #5

Slack surely is putting HipChat on its toes. Competition is really good. I use and enjoy HipChat. The feature I love about it is the ability to temporarily invite someone (edit: a non organization person) to a room. It would be nice if it was possible to have it open all day and have it like an IRC. It would be perfect for having support rooms for an app. One thing i'd like HipChat to improve on is the timeout that h…

> The feature I love about it is the ability to invite someone to a room.

Which really means that you can force people into a room, and there's no way to say "leave this room and don't let anyone force me back into it."

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