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There's not much (any ?) open-source self-hostable good slack/discord-like apps. Open source projects usually focus on federation and/or encryption when Revolt

There's not much (any ?) open-source self-hostable good slack/discord-like apps. Open source projects usually focus on federation and/or encryption when Revolt focus on UI/UX. If you're looking for a free software that just works, with good UI and you don't care for encryption, that might just be the best option out there. I'm not sure you can find anything more convincing.

NmAmDa 5y ago
There is Mattermost which is very good self hosted alternative to slack. Big players like CERN are using it.
- genewitch 5y ago
  Mattermost and rocket.chat don't do voice themselves. Discord does, in the client (no jitsi, etc) Matrix with coturn also does localized voip (i.e. confined to the homeserver) if configured correctly. When I hear discord I generally think of voice/video chat and screen sharing, and less about text chat; this may be a side effect of all the bridges, though, as I tend to chat on IRC and all three of my primary discord channels are bridged. I run matrix, mattermost, and rocket.chat. I like the api/whatever of mattermost but I really like the overall feel of matrix the best.
  - NmAmDa 5y ago
    I was saying that mattermost is reliable alternative to slack. I wasn't talking about Discord.
gsich 5y ago
There is Mumble and Teamspeak. Voice-wise they are equal or better. But not in text (Mumble severely lacking, Teamspeak marginally better).
- OrvalWintermute 5y ago
  > Voice-wise they are equal or better Mumble/Murmur and Teamspeak have better voice functionality than Discord, because they really are designed for voice chatting. > But not in text (Mumble severely lacking, Teamspeak marginally better). Concur, and this, along with all-in-one Slack-like rich URL handling leads to selections of discord. A more OSS friendly stack of Pidgin + Daemon | IRC & Mumble/Murmur seems to have the best scaling, and the best of both worlds, at least in my opinion because it has the lowest cost, richest functionality, and can scale the highest in terms of users without being dependent on a commercial service. I say this because I have seen Mumble/Murmur with > 2000 active users which is possible due to the rich permissioning system and excellent performance.
theelous3 5y ago
I mean, there's matrix. Just because you can federate, doesn't mean you have to. You can run it in isolation (in fact, it's even easier). Additionally, you don't have to care about or enable encryption either. Matrix also has nothing to do with UI or UX. The clients do. Write a new client if all you care about is UI/UX. You have a much higher chance of success.

NmAmDa 5y ago

There is Mattermost which is very good self hosted alternative to slack. Big players like CERN are using it.

genewitch 5y ago
Mattermost and rocket.chat don't do voice themselves. Discord does, in the client (no jitsi, etc) Matrix with coturn also does localized voip (i.e. confined to the homeserver) if configured correctly. When I hear discord I generally think of voice/video chat and screen sharing, and less about text chat; this may be a side effect of all the bridges, though, as I tend to chat on IRC and all three of my primary discord channels are bridged. I run matrix, mattermost, and rocket.chat. I like the api/whatever of mattermost but I really like the overall feel of matrix the best.
- NmAmDa 5y ago
  I was saying that mattermost is reliable alternative to slack. I wasn't talking about Discord.

gsich 5y ago

There is Mumble and Teamspeak. Voice-wise they are equal or better. But not in text (Mumble severely lacking, Teamspeak marginally better).

OrvalWintermute 5y ago
> Voice-wise they are equal or better Mumble/Murmur and Teamspeak have better voice functionality than Discord, because they really are designed for voice chatting. > But not in text (Mumble severely lacking, Teamspeak marginally better). Concur, and this, along with all-in-one Slack-like rich URL handling leads to selections of discord. A more OSS friendly stack of Pidgin + Daemon | IRC & Mumble/Murmur seems to have the best scaling, and the best of both worlds, at least in my opinion because it has the lowest cost, richest functionality, and can scale the highest in terms of users without being dependent on a commercial service. I say this because I have seen Mumble/Murmur with > 2000 active users which is possible due to the rich permissioning system and excellent performance.

theelous3 5y ago

I mean, there's matrix. Just because you can federate, doesn't mean you have to. You can run it in isolation (in fact, it's even easier). Additionally, you don't have to care about or enable encryption either. Matrix also has nothing to do with UI or UX. The clients do. Write a new client if all you care about is UI/UX. You have a much higher chance of success.