@eviltofu unfortunately IRC does not suffice for work-like use cases. It’s basically impossible to demand normal users do shit like maintain a shell server to get notifications from when they’re offline.
I wish it were not true, but…. It could not meet the standards in 2010, and those standards have only gotten higher
I've tried Element and Zulip, and haven't been happy with either from a accessibility POV (specifically using them with a screen reader). Haven't yet tried Mattermost.
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nothing is great honestly. I use Matrix as my alternative for my business stuff but there are limitations. And also confluence with fediverse sharing turned on for a more discussion forum setting so hopefully people can find already-solved questions more easily.
@Adrianna Tan Mattermost, I'd say. Not sure about Zulip. Having a clear opinion on Matrix/Element and all that ecosystem though. But maybe this works well if used in an internal corporate setup with a clearly defined user base.
That's not a bad idea @kaffeeringe. Talk serves mostly the chat/IM/video call needs. Maybe combined with a discussion forums app. You'll also get the all the benefits from Nextcloud like files hosting and sharing, calendar, address book and anything else you might want.
Work has a self-hosted RocketChat system that is quite usable as an alternative to Slack. There are some paid-only features like a cap on mobile notifications.
Element/Matrix works nicely for a hobby project that I'm involved in. I hear some people (generally) don't like it, mostly around cross-server compatibility issues, and I'm not sure it's as much of a replacement for Slack.
Element and Matrix are essentially using the same thing. It's nice that one can have E2EE channels, but the UX is far from good. Different clients support different subsets of features, i.e. Element Classic supports threads, Element X and Fluffychat don't, and each has different bugs. Element Classic has more issues on iOS, where it sometimes loses the post that was quoted and displays null in its place. (1/2)
I would not use mattermost, they began enshittifying the project, so they can't be trusted not to do more things like this: github.com/mattermost/mattermo…
I never used Zulip, so I don't have an opinion on it. If I had to setup something similar, I'd try it. (2/2)
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The thing about Matrix/Element is that it's some kind of distributed eventually consistent graph database consensus algorithm with a chat app implemented on top of it as a proof of concept. So there's always some jank and more if you use the federation. It's more reliable if you host it and use it only internally but that's a lot of work. I wouldn't really recommend it.
using element as replacement for skype since its been shutdown. Works well, has some bugs. We're on a private selfhosted server due to privacy concerns, which is a big improvement over skype.
Leo Bistmans
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Als Antwort auf EvilTofu • • •@eviltofu unfortunately IRC does not suffice for work-like use cases. It’s basically impossible to demand normal users do shit like maintain a shell server to get notifications from when they’re offline.
I wish it were not true, but…. It could not meet the standards in 2010, and those standards have only gotten higher
Matt Campbell
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Als Antwort auf Adrianna Tan • • •I think Zulip & Rocket.chat are the closest contenders.
There's also Stoat.chat (more discord-like though).
Kristian 🌒 mag das.
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Als Antwort auf Adrianna Tan • • •We use mattermost at our co-op and we applied the limitless.patch to get through the 10k message limit they impose on the free version.
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Als Antwort auf Steffen Voß • • •That's not a bad idea @kaffeeringe. Talk serves mostly the chat/IM/video call needs. Maybe combined with a discussion forums app. You'll also get the all the benefits from Nextcloud like files hosting and sharing, calendar, address book and anything else you might want.
@skinnylatte
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Als Antwort auf Adrianna Tan • • •I'm just a user, not on the admin side of things.
Work has a self-hosted RocketChat system that is quite usable as an alternative to Slack. There are some paid-only features like a cap on mobile notifications.
Element/Matrix works nicely for a hobby project that I'm involved in. I hear some people (generally) don't like it, mostly around cross-server compatibility issues, and I'm not sure it's as much of a replacement for Slack.
Timothy Kenno Handojo
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Als Antwort auf mlen • • •I would not use mattermost, they began enshittifying the project, so they can't be trusted not to do more things like this: github.com/mattermost/mattermo…
I never used Zulip, so I don't have an opinion on it. If I had to setup something similar, I'd try it. (2/2)
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Als Antwort auf Adrianna Tan • • •Here are some nice tools:
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