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I work on Zulip, so will only attempt an answer for that. Zulip is designed to scale team chat past when you're getting 1-200 messages a day. With an IRC- or S

by rishig 8y ago

I work on Zulip, so will only attempt an answer for that. Zulip is designed to scale team chat past when you're getting 1-200 messages a day. With an IRC- or Slack-like communication model, waking up to 100+ new messages every morning is a big drain on time and energy. Also, once a channel starts getting 100+ messages a day, it stops being useful for real communication. If someone starts a conversation at 10am, and you come by after lunch, it's hard to respond in context. You can see how Zulip solves this problem on the Zulip community server, https://chat.zulip.org https://chat.zulip.org (send test messages to "#test here", follow the code of conduct, etc., it's a live server). Feel free to PM me there if you set things up and have any questions/feedback. To address a previous post: Zulip, Mattermost, and Rocket.chat all take about 5 minutes to install, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Zulip and Rocket.chat also come with SaaS versions if you don't want to run your own infrastructure.

e12e 8y ago
Last I looked, only rocket.chat had a sane, minimal docker-compose setup that worked for getting started. I'm not thrilled about the mongodb dependency - but my overall impression of rocket.chat was very good. And the rest api is well documented and easy to work with. It may be that zulip has "scaled down" a bit now - when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s. (Not meant as a dig at zulip, I think it's awesome that the project was made open source!)
- rishig 8y ago
  > when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s. haha, that's a good way to put it. We've put in a lot of work over the last few months to make Zulip easier to deploy for a team of 20. > Last I looked, only rocket.chat had a sane, minimal docker-compose setup Fair enough! It's on our roadmap, so hopefully we'll have it by the next time you're looking for a chat :).

by rishig 8y ago

e12e 8y ago

Last I looked, only rocket.chat had a sane, minimal docker-compose setup that worked for getting started. I'm not thrilled about the mongodb dependency - but my overall impression of rocket.chat was very good. And the rest api is well documented and easy to work with. It may be that zulip has "scaled down" a bit now - when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s. (Not meant as a dig at zulip, I think it's awesome that the project was made open source!)

rishig 8y ago
> when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s. haha, that's a good way to put it. We've put in a lot of work over the last few months to make Zulip easier to deploy for a team of 20. > Last I looked, only rocket.chat had a sane, minimal docker-compose setup Fair enough! It's on our roadmap, so hopefully we'll have it by the next time you're looking for a chat :).