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Not a good fit for a corporate environment, unless you're already using IRC and need a web UI. It's basically a personal IRC client and lacks most of the featu
by lima 8y ago
Not a good fit for a corporate environment, unless you're already using IRC and need a web UI.
It's basically a personal IRC client and lacks most of the features you would expect from Slack (media upload, user management, editing/deleting messages, public channels...).
Take a look at Rocket Chat and Zulip instead.
- MaxLeiter 8y agoVersion 3.0 releasing soon (just need to write changelog, really) has file uploading support. Not sure what “public channels” are, but you can set channels to join and lock your Lounge instance to a network.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoEditing/deleting messages is a misfeature, and naturally IRC supports public channels, given that it invented them.
- lima 8y agoI mean the UI part, of course - Slack has public channels that everyone can easily discover and join. Of course, IRC can do all of that (much better than Slack, from a technical point of view). But IRC + The Lounge is not a drop-in replacement for Slack.
- Sir_Cmpwn 8y agoYou just mean recommending channels, then? Put them in your motd and a clickable list will show up when they log in.
- lima 8y agoSure - I know more than one company who uses IRC internally, and it works just fine. However, Slack or Rocket Chat have much better usability for non-technical users.
- YaManicKill 8y agoThe Lounge has easy access to IRC's LIST command, which does exactly this. The UI is a bit dirty, but we'll hopefully tidy it up soon. https://files.yamanickill.com/Q0MSPAU8.png https://files.yamanickill.com/Q0MSPAU8.png