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You won't get cheaper AND better. There's already a ton of competition. Cheaper exists (everything from IRC to HipChat to Mattermost to dozens of Slack clones[
by gkoberger 10y ago
You won't get cheaper AND better. There's already a ton of competition.
Cheaper exists (everything from IRC to HipChat to Mattermost to dozens of Slack clones[1]); you're more than welcome to use any of those. The reason people don't is because Slack is the best (great UI, works well, lots of integrations, network effect, etc).
[1] http://blog.capterra.com/the-top-13-slack-alternatives/ http://blog.capterra.com/the-top-13-slack-alternatives/
- hiby007 10y agoI agree, Slack is the best out there, I as a customer would always like competition than monopoly. Good Competiton always benefits customers.
- it33 10y agoHi @gkoberger, Mattermost team here. Thanks for the mention. I'd share that Mattermost has gotten popular as a Slack-alternative recently. There's hundreds of contributors and we're now available in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Dutch and Russian--whereas Slack is English-only. Also, the open source community has added many features Slack doesn't offer, like threaded messaging, multi-team accounts, markdown support, etc. See: https://www.mattermost.org/what-slack-might-learn-from-its-open-source-alternative/ https://www.mattermost.org/what-slack-might-learn-from-its-o... Right now, Mattermost is most popular among IT organizations looking for an open source, private cloud messaging solution they can control and customize, and we're branching out from there.