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Sure. The main thing is that Hipchat is just very buggy. It does not handle disconnects or intermittent connectivity well, requiring a lot of app restarts. My c

Sure. The main thing is that Hipchat is just very buggy. It does not handle disconnects or intermittent connectivity well, requiring a lot of app restarts. My coworkers have been reporting a lot of issues with the mobile apps simply not working. The desktop client has many operations that block the UI thread for several seconds needlessly (like starting a private chat). But those are just bugs. These are the features I really miss from Slack: * Ability to select a recent message you sent and edit it to fix typos. Hipchat uses s/oldtext/newtext, but it does not work consistently, and is only designed to work on the most recently sent message. * Github-style emoji, like :+1:. It's really weird have a different emoji set and syntax in Hipchat. * Better per-channel notification preferences. * Waaaaaaaay better integrations with other services. * A more attractive UI, and other subjective things like that.

findjashua 12y ago
Could you elaborate a bit on what exactly is better in channel notifications and 3rd party integrations?
- sandyarmstrong 12y ago
  Well, Slack has per-channel notification settings, and HipChat does not. So with HipChat I have to choose between more notification spam, insufficient notifications, or not being in as many channels as I'd like. I'm starting to forget what it is I preferred about the github integration in slack as opposed to HipChat...it's been awhile now. But there are also just so many URLs that do something useful in Slack but don't in HipChat (for example, rdio). Another annoying thing about the HipChat desktop client is modal dialogs where there shouldn't be. If somebody pings me in a room I'm not in, a modal pops up, which can be activated accidentally while I'm typing a message in another room, causing me to lose the notification, or get immediately (well, with annoying lag) sent to the channel that pinged me, interrupting the message I was typing and destroying my flow.

findjashua 12y ago

Could you elaborate a bit on what exactly is better in channel notifications and 3rd party integrations?

sandyarmstrong 12y ago
Well, Slack has per-channel notification settings, and HipChat does not. So with HipChat I have to choose between more notification spam, insufficient notifications, or not being in as many channels as I'd like. I'm starting to forget what it is I preferred about the github integration in slack as opposed to HipChat...it's been awhile now. But there are also just so many URLs that do something useful in Slack but don't in HipChat (for example, rdio). Another annoying thing about the HipChat desktop client is modal dialogs where there shouldn't be. If somebody pings me in a room I'm not in, a modal pops up, which can be activated accidentally while I'm typing a message in another room, causing me to lose the notification, or get immediately (well, with annoying lag) sent to the channel that pinged me, interrupting the message I was typing and destroying my flow.