There's a link to an "online demo" but then it asks for your login info or for you to register. That isn't really a demo then, is it?
RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
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Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
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Are you asking if people would consider to a better but cheaper version of Slack? Because the answer is probably yes. Gotta get the integrations right though.
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#53Funnily enough there are actually multiple Slack-like chat app projects underway in the Meteor community. I guess building a chat app is the new building a todo list app? Yesterday at Meteor's main meetup Devshop this was presented: http://spacetalkapp.com/ and the speaker mentioned that there's a big community effort underway to keep improving it. Let's see which one wins the race :)
I think chat apps are the new todo list app. Everyone is building one and frankly they are all boring and don't offer anything significant.
I tend to agree. Instant messaging seems to be dying out in the workplace. I used to find it a highly effective mode of collaboration, especially in large enterprises. Small shops seem to leave it off the list. We cranked up Slack for my team of 15 devs, but since we are co-located it didn't add any value. I guess if you were trying to make a buck off the cloud an IRC SaaS solution might look like a good idea. I don't think Freenode has to worry. :)
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#54So you set this up and you use it for a few hours and everyone on your team is like hey this is kinda cool. * a month or so passes * Now everyone is invested in the tool and since the expectations have been set by things like Slack they expect integrations to work flawlessly, search to be infinitely fast, 99% uptime, Google OpenID authentication, and a slew of other features and before you know it you have someone sp…
What if you can't run slack because your company doesn't allow chat services that are externally hosted?
EDIT: This seems like something that never gets brought up in any discussion of Slack. No company I have worked for would have allowed an externally hosted chat service. Have I just been unlucky, or is it just the people in my situation never speak up?
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#55The fact Slack is a thing is evidence of how horrible dominant IM companies are at their business.
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also, there's nothing stopping your company from making the product better. You shouldn't be spending 2 hours each day solving the same problems. If you make fixes, push them upstream (and others will too), then everyone gets a better product.
When you are running a business, you use tools to make your life easier. The reason I pay for Slack is precisely so I _don't_ have to push fixes upstream. Tools are a means to solving a problem. Something being open source is not by itself a plus. I don't want to be developing a chat client so I can use it, I want to build my own fucking company.
So...don't use it. Honestly, there are other people here that will see this link and go "hey I want to add this feature in this" and the tool becomes better. Once it does I am sure you're gonna come back and leech on it.
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#57Does the demo work for anyone? Would like to check it out, but does not load, just hangs.
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#58There's a link to an "online demo" but then it asks for your login info or for you to register. That isn't really a demo then, is it?
That's the brick wall I hit too. I'm not giving them my email address for a demo, and I'm not logging in with a social media service.
I suppose I could download it myself and try it out that way, but that's a ton of effort for something I may not even want in the end.
Rocket.Chat devs, if you're listening, please provide a way to demo the program without giving up real information.
Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#59Re: RocketChat: Slack-like online chat, built with Meteor
#60The fact Slack is a thing is evidence of how horrible dominant IM companies are at their business.
Dominant IM companies are a thing?
I know this is serious, but maybe I misread your intention. The thing that makes Slack greater than all of the dominant IMs is that IM is their whole business.
Everyone else is busy "improving" gmail if you're Google, or monetizing voip/video chat, or (whatever it is that SalesForce does besides Chattr), meanwhile Slack is just chat, and whatever else you expected chat to encompass.