My experience has been that Discord is a pleasure to use.
And then there’s IRC, Slack and Gitter - by preference. With Gitter being by far the worst
And then there’s IRC, Slack and Gitter - by preference. With Gitter being by far the worst
Slack has been pretty solid for large groups though. We'd normally hit the message limit in 3 days, sometimes even 1 day during a large raid. It didn't really matter because nobody really wants to scroll that far back.
IRC seems to have a chance with IRCCloud and the like, but it's just hard to get people into. But we are starting to see channels with 500-1000 people again, so maybe this appeals to some communities.
Do you know of any official/unofficial videos that would help getting traction?
I'm afraid I don't know of any videos, but I tell people "Zulip is exactly like Slack, but everything is a thread, and you can zoom in and out of threads" and find that that's basically enough for them to get it. Maybe try that with a few people and see?
Also helps that we have a full email coupling, so if someone in your team doesn’t like or want to use the app, everything will stream to them just as regular email threads they can respond. This is useful for older folks who prefer email, or higher up people who don’t want to deal with an app but still be able to follow what’s happening.
Here’s a comparison of how that works in one image: https://i.imgur.com/wLFnIyn.png
If you’d like to try it I can throw in a discount code, just reach out - my email is in my profile.
God I hate Gitter. I'm forced to use it because some communities (such as Mithril.js) hang there but it's slow, riddled with UX problems, and search is completely useless.
It's such a shame that for chat you have the choice between something which turns your laptop into a helicoper but works everywhere or something super fast and extendable (and free!) which is blocked by every firewall everywhere.
Ha! Never thought I'd hear mIRC described as a top-class client. Unix has irssi, and I'd opine that even Xchat is better than mIRC.
I hadn't though of mIRC in so long. It makes me think back to the days of planning imageboard raids on IRC. They even had a special version of mIRC for imageboard raids called m/i/rc.
http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=19324 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3N1q4NgyCMs
That's alone is my biggest wish out of Discord.
I also have everything I want hotkeyed, so I still think that "far behind" is a huge stretch at best.
You mean an open source alternative, because TS is already self hosted.
In my experience, this improves the quality of every conversation. They just flow more naturally.
I wish other solutions would prioritize latency. Skype went very noticeably backward after they switched away from P2P.
May you please expand on why it’s not of your liking?