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…or maybe just stop trying to play with the cat tail if you don't want to get scratched. There is plenty of solutions out there to do chat messaging "kinda lik

…or maybe just stop trying to play with the cat tail if you don't want to get scratched. There is plenty of solutions out there to do chat messaging "kinda like" or maybe better than Slack. I'm using Slack daily and I can't find what this platform has something so magical about it. I am personally building a communication client that can do IM, video-conferencing, file sharing, posting articles… all based on XMPP. It works in the browsers and we are proposing now apps for Android and macOS/Windows/Linux. It's way lighter than Slack, can be deployed easily on a VPS or in your company and is fully compatible with many other XMPP clients/bots (Github is proposing a XMPP bot for MUCs for example :)). If you want to try it out or know more: https://movim.eu https://movim.eu. If you don't like Movim, I still invite you to find open platforms that can be tuned/hacked/adapted to your needs, there's plenty of them in the wild ;)

g3rv4 8y ago
I’d really like to give zulip a try... unfortunately, I don’t have voice or vote over that decision on my company. Also, I love the company too much to resign over a such a small thing that can be fixed with a 20kb extension.
- Pistos2 8y ago
  I like what Zulip tries to be in theory (the "topics" feature is really great), but there are two knocks against it, in my opinion: 1. They do not support self-hosting the code on a system with anything else hosted on it. You are strongly recommended to dedicate a server (VPS, Docker, whatever) to your Zulip installation. You can try to install it on an existing server, but it is far from trivial, and doing so is unsupported. 2. As part of the installation script(s), they blindly wget code and execute it with bash. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/eb676e8e508df0349662addd6245ebf7ab235744/scripts/lib/install-node#L35 https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/eb676e8e508df0349662addd...

g3rv4 8y ago

I’d really like to give zulip a try... unfortunately, I don’t have voice or vote over that decision on my company. Also, I love the company too much to resign over a such a small thing that can be fixed with a 20kb extension.

Pistos2 8y ago
I like what Zulip tries to be in theory (the "topics" feature is really great), but there are two knocks against it, in my opinion: 1. They do not support self-hosting the code on a system with anything else hosted on it. You are strongly recommended to dedicate a server (VPS, Docker, whatever) to your Zulip installation. You can try to install it on an existing server, but it is far from trivial, and doing so is unsupported. 2. As part of the installation script(s), they blindly wget code and execute it with bash. https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/eb676e8e508df0349662addd6245ebf7ab235744/scripts/lib/install-node#L35 https://github.com/zulip/zulip/blob/eb676e8e508df0349662addd...