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Poll: What chat service are you using for internal communication with your team?
What chat service are you using for internal communication these days? If you're using something that is not an option, leave a comment.
- gourneau 13y agoWe love Jabber. ejabberd is surprisingly simple to setup and get going.
- marknutter 13y agoWe use the product we're working on: http://kona.com http://kona.com
- jacobwcarlson 13y agohttps://hall.com/ https://hall.com/ Pros: integration with PT and Github rules; mobile client is better than decent. Cons: transcripts/history can be wonky; no way to add metadata to file uploads; native OS X client seems to randomly eat characters when typing.
- lifeguard 13y agoWe used skype at my last shop and it was not very smooth. I prefer self-hosted jabber / XMPP.
- mace 13y agoI suspected many in the community here would host their own XMPP server. What XMPP server are you using or would you use?
- JoshTriplett 13y agoI've had great luck with prosody. I used to use jabberd2, but I switched away from it due to its dependencies on various badly-maintained libraries.
- Glyptodon 13y agoWe also use Prosody and like it. For us it's been very close to an "it just works" solution.
- Glyptodon 13y agoInternally hosted Jabber/XMPP. It's actually been one of our longer lasting decisions, so it was a probably a good choice.
- silasb 13y agoWe use Google Talk. My setup is LimeChat -> Bitlbee -> GTalk.
- usujason 13y agoAt my last company we made heavy use of Yammer.
- olympus 13y agoMicrosoft Communicator. If you're in a big company that already uses MS Exchange for emails then it's a pretty easy integration. Probably not a great solution for small companies due to the cost.
- tallanvor 13y agoThe O365 plans that include Lync aren't really that expensive, surprisingly enough. It's not a reason to switch, but for companies already used to Exchange, it's probably a viable option.
- MichaelGG 13y agoOffice365 makes the cost pretty low. And Lync has got to be one of the better MS products. It blows other PBX/presence solutions out of the water. Probably the main reason it hasn't completely dominated is because MS is taking a weird partner-oriented approach to VoIP with it. So getting setup with some numbers and outbound calling is tons more work than it should be.
- the_economist 13y agoWe use AIM.
- positr0n 13y agoIBM's SameTime (part of Lotus Notes).
- mlwarren 13y agoI used to be on a team which used SameTime. Although I disliked using Lotus Notes for email SameTime was a joy, especially the ability to take and send screenshots from the chat window.
- positr0n 13y agoWe also figured out you can add arbitrary gifs as "emoticons" with built-in keyboard shortcuts and everything. Great fun ensued sending terrible reddit gifs to communicate :-)
- aroemers 13y agoFlowdock, it's great.
- dtwhitney 13y agoI'll second this. We have a team in New York and a team in Paris, and flowdock has absolutely been the best hub for seeing what's happening across teams, and communicating with each other
- dunham 13y agoPrivate Jabber/XMPP server.
- ismaelc 13y agoAt Mashape, we use Flowdock
- vollmond 13y agoPhones... and long, agenda-less, ad-hoc meetings. And sometimes XMPP.
- unkoman 13y agoI cry with you.
- cap10morgan 13y agoHumbug: https://humbughq.com/signup/ https://humbughq.com/signup/ Still pretty new, and in closed beta. But it adds an interesting threading/topic model onto the typically chaotic stream of most group chat apps.
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- c0nsumer 13y agoCisco WebEx Connect
- trebor 13y agoWe predominantly use our feet. Unless someone's snowed in, sick, or subcontracted (and not local) we just walk on over to their desk and talk. Or, hold an ad-hoc meeting. When someone's physically absent from the office, we have no standard policy (though Skype is common).
- talles 13y agoMy company uses Communicator. Not a big fan TBH. A stupid configuration prepends an underscore to urls, preventing it to be clickable. Hate it.
- tomwhipple 13y agokato.im
- bbthorson 13y agoSeconded, kato.im is an interesting company to watch
- mam8cc 13y agoLync. Pros: -Outlook Integration -Screen Sharing -Decent UI Cons: -Literally the worst copy & paste implementation I've ever seen. -No third party chat protocol integration. (I want to integrate Facebook and Google's Jabber). Edit: Formatting.
- zwieback 13y agoLync as well, like it quite a bit. Big company (100000+) and Outlook/Lync is a given.
- muyuu 13y agoVoIP, email and very occasionally an internal messenger. The idea is not interrupting others too lightly, since we already have scheduled meetings. If something needs dealing with urgently, then these measures kick in.
- zoo 13y agoFlowdock. Holy moly Flowdock is slow. Have to restart it a couple times every day. SO ANNOYING
- aantix 13y agoAnybody using Sococo? https://www.sococo.com/home https://www.sococo.com/home
- btipling 13y agoI hope selecting two options was ok. We use a combination of IRC and Google Hangouts.
- sambeau 13y agoEmail
- grumps 13y agoSneakerNet and XMPP
- deleted 13y ago[deleted]
- phene 13y agoWe use a combination of Socialcast and Google Hangouts.
- rhodge 13y agoHipchat with my close internal team. Gchat for the rest of the company.
- bjhoops1 13y agoI had to choose Lotus Sametime. Now I must go weep alone.
- mbillie1 13y agoInternally hosted Jabber/XMPP for chat; Google Hangouts for cross-location meetings.
- petercooper 13y agohttp://talkerapp.com/ http://talkerapp.com/ - to me it's essentially Campfire but free Skype is good too but be careful if you use it for IM. I frequently receive messages hours after the other person sent them, even if we're both online. This is starting to make me not want to rely on it other than for voice/video.
- eitally 13y agoGtalk/Hangouts, a little Skype still, and Whatsapp (although I'm forcibly trying to replace Whatsapp with Hangouts).
- bowmanb 13y agoFlowdock for chat and a GH/Jenkins/Jira feed. Google Hangouts for meetings.
- Roedou 13y agoWe use Google+ for loads of internal communication. It's easy to restrict posts to our organization via Google Apps. While I've not seen any use to adopt G+ in a public way, it's been a phenomenal internal comms tool for async sharing, discussion and debate that isn't critical enough to go on an everyone@ email list.
- chrismeller 13y agoAIM. It's so old, the NSA forgot about it.
- dekz 13y agoIRC with about 5 users, the rest just drop in at any time and expect every detail of the discussion to be remembered.
- fractalcat 13y agoInternal XMPP. Poor ejabberd isn't handling our growth in traffic very well and gets oomkilled and/or swaps itself to death with depressing regularity, so we're trying prosody (over the protests of the internal-IRC faction).
- courington 13y agoNow using Kato.im a lot and loving it. Have used Google, Campfire, HipChat, Flowdock in the past.
- chagel 13y agoDont believe there is no QQ :D http://im.qq.com/online/index.shtml http://im.qq.com/online/index.shtml
- tcarnell 13y agoTeamtinct.com - It is still in its early days, but works great.
- tcarnell 13y agoWhy is 'email' not an option? Which is by FAR the most commonly used internal communication system - although I do NOT recommend it! http://teamstinct.com/but-whats-wrong-with-email http://teamstinct.com/but-whats-wrong-with-email