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What do tools like Convore or Hipchat or Campfire offer that you can't do as easily with Skype? We've been using Skype at work for communication for years and n
by statictype 15y ago
What do tools like Convore or Hipchat or Campfire offer that you can't do as easily with Skype?
We've been using Skype at work for communication for years and never really even felt the need to explore alternatives. Is there something I'm missing about these?
- borski 15y agoWe use Hipchat because of all the integrations and the ability to have a public room (which we use for support) with a web ui. Every time code is pushed, a pull request is issued, status changes in Pivotal, etc., we get a ping in our Engineering room. I know Campfire offers a lot of these things as well; we just chose Hipchat because it's what we used and liked. :)
- buddy_nuggs 15y agoMy team was using Skype starting in late 2010. Around spring/summer 2011, we started noticing drastic deterioration of call quality and, more importantly, chat messages getting dropped (spinning gray circle graphic would persist next to the message). We've switched to HipChat primarily with great results, and occasionally Skype for audio calls.
- brown9-2 15y agoLogged transcripts. APIs and bots.
- statictype 15y agoSkype does all those too.