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Ask HN: Which self-hosted, enterprise-ready Slack alternative do you use?
There’s HipChat Server. However, since Atlassian launched Stride, I fear HipChat will fall behind.
My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub. We’d love to pay and have a phone number to call if things go south.
End-to-end-encryption (as in: DB admin cannot read anything) would be a plus, of course.
- maze-le 9y agoMattermost, works quite good. It is also pretty simple to set up and deploy. [0]: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server EDIT: just read your post entireley. >> 'My company does not want to use yet another free Slack alternative on GitHub' So that one is not what you are looking for. But I keep the post in case anyone is interested in it...
- krisives 9y agoNobody runs a SaaS for Mattermost?
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- arcdigital 9y agoMattermost does have a paid (still self-hosted) version that includes support. https://about.mattermost.com/pricing/ https://about.mattermost.com/pricing/
- jsiepkes 9y agoWere using Zulip. Before that we used Mattermost but we migrated to Zulip because of its (in our opinion) superior conversation threading model and never looked back. Mattermost, Slack, etc. all work fine when you work on a project basis but when you work on a lot of short lived operational issues (for example "Issue with invoice XYZ" Slacks conversational threading model breaks down quite fast. At least it did for us. iirc there is also a paid hosted version of Zulip but I don't know that for sure.
- nature 9y agoThe hosted version is free for FLOSS projects and has a premium option: https://zulipchat.com/plans/ https://zulipchat.com/plans/.
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- agitator 9y agoWe used mattermost in the past... maybe it's different now, but I remember the UI being frustratingly odd. Definitely didn't have the pleasant usability of slack.
- msh 9y agomicrosoft teams
- twunde 9y agoI'll second this. While it's not self-hosted, it is the only SAAS option that's actually usable in regulated industries. The main consideration is that the api is slightly different and some integrations aren't as nice (Looking at you PagerDuty)
- factorialboy 9y agoIRC?
- ahdroit 9y ago"End-to-end-encryption" has flailed us.
- andscoop 9y agoAlong the same lines as the question, does anyone consider keybase.io teams feature a viable alternative for small to medium sized teams?
- intellent 9y agoWe currently do use Keybase teams. We love the concept. Unfortunately, we do not consider Keybase production-ready, yet. Especially the mobile apps are pretty buggy atm, which is one consideration why we’re looking for an alternative.