What does your company use for instant messaging?

5 points·jlafon··12 comments

My company uses Skype, but nobody is happy with it. Does HN have any recommendations? Unless we find something better, we're going to host our own jabber server.

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We use Skype. In the old days (before I joined), IRC was used but it seems to have fallen out of favour. In my opinion, IRC was better because:

- it was entirely internal

- things can be automated easily with bots

- we have logs of everything

We used Skype before and weren't happy, but we just changed to https://www.flowdock.com/. It does also other useful things (gathers all feeds into one "inbox"). Works very well for development teams, but our whole team has been happy with it. Should work well for bigger organizations too.

Btw, it has also IRC-integration, so people familiar with that (like me) should be alright.

We use Prosody.IM, which is a jabber server powered by LUA. Before that we used the Java-based openfire/wildfire jabber server.

Clients are left open to personal preference, but the chat-server itself is Jabber.

I've got clients who use Jabber + Google Hangouts, others who use HipChat + Google Hangouts. G+ Hangouts seem better than Skype in my experience.

Hipchat's logging + API hooks are really handy

We use Campfire for group discussion and Jabber for IM.

http://Lync.com – IM/audio/video/screen sharing/keyboard access

I can't imagine having to have Skype open.. my computer is bogged down enough without Skype

We are using Hipchat/Skype and its been working great for communication within our team

Thank you all for the recommendations. I'm going to check out each of them.

Try http://hipchat.com

Just the built-in Google Chat (we use Gmail to power our email).

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