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> Can you suggest a pre-Slack groupchat, free-to-use, whose (cross-platform) UX doesn't suck? There were many before Slack, e.g. HipChat but as said the in G-M
by thinbeige 9y ago
> Can you suggest a pre-Slack groupchat, free-to-use, whose (cross-platform) UX doesn't suck?
There were many before Slack, e.g. HipChat but as said the in G-Mail integrated chat has an excellent group chat (assuming your organization uses the GSuite).
Nowadays, a group chat is just a commodity which many other products include.
- lmm 9y agoHipChat always cost money. GChat had no native client on the desktop, and broke its userbase by initially supporting federation and then taking it away.
- bqe 9y agoHipChat has a free tier.
- lmm 9y agoOk technically you're right, but the free tier (which only predates Slack by a couple of months) was limited to 5 users, so it cost money for most use cases.
- ptman 9y agoGoogle Talk for Windows : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Talk