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Anyone using Element, RocketChat, or Mattermost instead of Slack? What’s your experience been like?
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shazow
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I use Element for several chat groups. It's... okay. It's no Discord, but I abstractly like the Matrix protocol. I'm not ultrabullish on it, but I'd like for it to be more successful than it is.
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This would be fore a small business, sub 50 employees, that doesn't want to use paid or American software anymmore.
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would it maybe be a good fit?
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shazow
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Upside: There are several Matrix clients/servers, but Element is the most up to date and complete one. The experience is somewhat closer to IRC than it is to Slack. Downside: It can be slow/janky especially on older machines, but it has gotten pretty good. Progress has been moderately slow, given the age of the protocol. It's not really designed to be a Slack replacement as much as Rocket Chat, it's more designed to be an open protocol that is usable in a lot of different contexts.
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Yeah RocketChat seems the closest to the features we use in Slack from what I've seen.
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shazow
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I haven't used it but my gut feel is that it sounds like a better starting point. Would love to hear how your experience goes!
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I'll let you know if we go this route. Not loving the recent changes to slack and in general have just been trying to move away from foreign companiy's services. I don't have complete control over the decision making but I have a lot of sway
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shazow
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I assume you've seen this, but nice resource: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/slack
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