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Free Slack Alternatives: 10 Best Tools for Team Communication
- executesorder66 10y ago1 - Bitrix24 2 - HipChat 3 - Hall 4 - Pie 5 - eXo Platform 6 - Yammer 7 - Microsoft Lync 8 - Skype 9 - Fuze 10 - glip At my work "Lync" just updated to "Skype for Business". Is there even a difference? Also, why the hell is IRC not on the list?
- GordonS 10y agothere is a difference - Skype for Business is buggy as HELL! Hundreds of our users (myself included) are always having problems with it
- chrono3d 10y agoI know it says updated March 2016, but seems a bit out of date, given the references to Lync and especially Hall (seems to have been acquired by Atlassian in 2015 and rolled into HipChat[0]) [0]: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hall#/entity https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hall#/entity
- doozy 10y agoEmail + IRC + Mumble + Any combination of version control, bugtracker and wiki. Why people pay for this kind of thing is beyond me.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago"api" was just explaining that yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12140489 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12140489
- parent5446 10y agoYou may not work at a company, but for anything other than personal use, it is very easy to see why a homebrew IRC + Mumble solution is not going to work. I love open source as much as the next guy (and am waiting for Mattermost to incorporate E2E so I can switch my personal communications over to it), but it's a bit elitist to "not be able to imagine" why people would pay for a chat service.
- parent5446 10y agoDid not see the other comment before posting mine. api's comment linked below has a much better explanation.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoWhat's the best FOSS alternative or collection of components currently available? And that people like to use? ;)