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What does your company use for instant messaging?
My company uses Skype, but nobody is happy with it. Does HN have any recommendations? Unless we find something better, we're going to host our own jabber server.
- jstanley 14y agoWe use Skype. In the old days (before I joined), IRC was used but it seems to have fallen out of favour. In my opinion, IRC was better because: - it was entirely internal - things can be automated easily with bots - we have logs of everything
- stevejalim 14y agoI've got clients who use Jabber + Google Hangouts, others who use HipChat + Google Hangouts. G+ Hangouts seem better than Skype in my experience. Hipchat's logging + API hooks are really handy
- kape 14y agoWe used Skype before and weren't happy, but we just changed to https://www.flowdock.com/ https://www.flowdock.com/. It does also other useful things (gathers all feeds into one "inbox"). Works very well for development teams, but our whole team has been happy with it. Should work well for bigger organizations too. Btw, it has also IRC-integration, so people familiar with that (like me) should be alright.
- Peroni 14y agoWe use Campfire for group discussion and Jabber for IM.
- brequinn 14y agoWe are using Hipchat/Skype and its been working great for communication within our team
- pseudorocker 14y agoJust the built-in Google Chat (we use Gmail to power our email).
- stevekemp 14y agoWe use Prosody.IM, which is a jabber server powered by LUA. Before that we used the Java-based openfire/wildfire jabber server. Clients are left open to personal preference, but the chat-server itself is Jabber.
- jkaykin 14y agoTry http://hipchat.com http://hipchat.com
- stewie2 14y agooffice communicator
- varunkho 14y agohttp://Lync.com http://Lync.com – IM/audio/video/screen sharing/keyboard access
- jlafon 14y agoThank you all for the recommendations. I'm going to check out each of them.
- SteveOliver 14y agoWe use Brosix Enterprise Instant Messenger. It is business-oriented and it is quite useful for interoffice communication http://www.brosix.com http://www.brosix.com
- donnieberg 14y agoWe have used Brosix for the longest time. It is an enterprise messenger. Our main purpose behind using this IM is the security. You can check it out here: http://www.brosix.com http://www.brosix.com
- kelseyjones 14y agoWe use Brosix too, especially because they are soon upgrading to being able to link different accounts, like AIM, and still run through a secure server.
- onlyup 14y agoI can't imagine having to have Skype open.. my computer is bogged down enough without Skype