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Who is building the open-source Slack? Four things are needed: 1. Good support for multiple active clients, including mobile. If I see a message on desktop, I

• amq 10y ago
  https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
  • ronreiter 10y ago
    Rocket chat is awesome. It even has giphy integration!
• reactor 10y ago
  http://www.mattermost.org/ http://www.mattermost.org/ is doing it
  • 50CNT 10y ago
    Yup, been looking into it the last couple of days because Slack is devilishly slow in China, and it seems to cover most of the stuff you'd want from slack plus the things GP mentioned. Really cool stuff.
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  • fredrik-j 10y ago
    Technically Mattermost is very interesting. Unfortunately I cannot figure out their licensing scheme and business model. The license file mentions several licenses: AGPL, Apache 2, and the MIT license. They seem to apply separate licenses to binaries that they publish vs the open source repository. Is there an implied open core business model somewhere? How do I know when Mattermost Inc will show up and demand money for a proprietary license because I've misinterpreted what parts of the mattermost software is AGPL licensed? https://github.com/mattermost/platform/blob/4ae72ad1a878fdf1fc3a25068e783e5a24432f08/LICENSE.txt https://github.com/mattermost/platform/blob/4ae72ad1a878fdf1...
    • Freak_NL 10y ago
      Why not ask them to clarify? Mattermost is explicitly a self-hosted solution. Their license does not appear strange to me; you can either use their builds, or build from source and adhere to the AGPL.
  • sschueller 10y ago
    The android client is very annoying to use as it doesn't follow the standard android UI guide lines. Can't swipe in the menu etc.
• david_ar 10y ago
  https://matrix.org https://matrix.org and https://vector.im https://vector.im
• dlandis 10y ago
  Well it would need a good design too. Let's not say that just piling on features would lead to success. Too many open source projects have already had that perspective... It needs to be fun to use with no learning curve and continue to be fun months down the road.
• MaxLeiter 10y ago
  There's a community forked version with more active developers, features, etc here: https://github.com/thelounge/lounge https://github.com/thelounge/lounge. Plugin support is still sparse, but there is a packages[0] POC branch, along with a wiki page detailing the ideal plugin/extension/package system[1] [0] https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/tree/packages https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/tree/packages [1] https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/wiki/Package-system-design-and-plan https://github.com/thelounge/lounge/wiki/Package-system-desi...
• jhgg 10y ago
  Although it's not open sourced, you should check out discord (https://discordapp.com/ https://discordapp.com/). Although our niche is gamers, lots of people use Discord for tons of other things. We've got all those things except search (but we're working on it!) (disclosure: i work there)
  • scrollaway 10y ago
    Discord is great. We use it at my company. Search is sorely lacking. Tab complete is buggy. But it's really great. Really wish you'd open source it.
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  • aiiane 10y ago
    It'd be nice if you all had a stronger story for how you're going to stay afloat long term. "Stickers, lol" isn't very much of one.
    • ocdtrekkie 10y ago
      Exactly, a bunch of friends tried to move a chatroom from Skype to Discord, and I blew them off, because I didn't want to move my communication to an app from a company just hoping to get bought out by Twitch probably and shut down within a year. A closed source service with no business model isn't something anyone should even try, much less use.
• ex3ndr 10y ago
  Try us: https://actor.im https://actor.im