Does it force any particular process / workflow?
I'd like to try it but the investment of time and social capital in trying a new tool that doesn't work out for the team is very high.
Yes, it has one workflow, personally I think it's a good middle ground between simplicity (like Github issues) and completeness (like Jira), there is this 8 min tutorial on it here: https://youtu.be/bzCZysm5lG8
I agree with the investment thing, can't help with this one though :)
2. after evaluating Kanboard and WeKan we decided to keep it simple and reuse the Gitlab (issue-tracker) as a Kanban board (we already used gitlab anyway so this was something everyone was familiar with).
Just want to mention that Zulip is not a Slack clone. The development of Zulip was started in August 2012[1] while Slack was released in August 2013. Folks who are interested to know more should take a look at https://zulipchat.com/why-zulip/
Before Zulip we used XMPP for a long time but found clients to be a bit lacking. We moved to Mattermost for a brief period until we stumbled on Zulip and thought; Dang, they got the threading thing right... So we switched to Zulip and it has been great for us.
The organisation uses Kanboard for all kinds of projects. IT development uses Phabricator. As a gapps / exchange replacement we use Open-Xchange. Actually we have been using that since it was open sourced almost 13 years ago.
We started off with just the development team using Slack, and the rest of the company using Skype. Now we all use Slack internally, and Skype when that's all clients have.
I think the reason that the company moved to Slack was cost based, but really I think they wanted to play with the integrations :)
We are looking into switching Slack to Hangouts Chat (why pay for 2 services when you can do it with 1). However we are getting mixed feedback from our test users…
Anyone here with Hangouts Chat experiences?
We shifted from Slack to Hangouts Chat about 3 months ago.
It has generally gone down pretty well. It has nice features like the way it makes posts in Rooms their own 'threads', and allows the user to enable or disable notifications per 'thread'. Also, as you say, the cost for Chat was included with our G-Suite license.
However, as a SysAdmin it doesn't have the same level of administrator controls that you see in more mature products, such as Slack (and even Discord). In my opinion it is still very much in beta and Google need to keep adding to the admin and end-user features before it really competes with Slack.
I love Clubhouse.io. Best description I think can be a nicer looking Trello on steroids. It has a focus on software development management, but nothing stopping you from using it for any project management. Pricing is also reasonable.
Using Asana as well for a different project.
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For non software dev, stopped using/didn’t go back to a type of app I’ve always had a soft spot for because of pricing. App being Basecamp and apps heavily influenced by it like Teamwork.com. It’s just myself, my partner, and a freelancer right now. So Basecamp only price of $100/mo and Teamwork having 5 user minimum at $9/mo (so $45/mo), ends up not being worth it. I’d love to find an app like these for a more fair price.
I haven't yet used Discord for an actual company, but I've used it to manage and organize several projects now, some quite large. IMO, it beats Slack in every way. I really can't imagine using Slack for any new project/organization at this point.
Have you hit any limits when pinning files to a channel? It's pretty tempting to try Discord instead of Slack at this point.
Well, the ideal work messenger would be a Slack clone (maybe with threading options) with native apps as clients, instead of javascript turds, but I guess that's never going to happen.
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I agree with the investment thing, can't help with this one though :)
2. after evaluating Kanboard and WeKan we decided to keep it simple and reuse the Gitlab (issue-tracker) as a Kanban board (we already used gitlab anyway so this was something everyone was familiar with).
[1] https://github.com/zulip/zulip/commit/ea43d2e40e59cb0240ea36...
Before Zulip we used XMPP for a long time but found clients to be a bit lacking. We moved to Mattermost for a brief period until we stumbled on Zulip and thought; Dang, they got the threading thing right... So we switched to Zulip and it has been great for us.
The organisation uses Kanboard for all kinds of projects. IT development uses Phabricator. As a gapps / exchange replacement we use Open-Xchange. Actually we have been using that since it was open sourced almost 13 years ago.
We started off with just the development team using Slack, and the rest of the company using Skype. Now we all use Slack internally, and Skype when that's all clients have.
I think the reason that the company moved to Slack was cost based, but really I think they wanted to play with the integrations :)
We are looking into switching Slack to Hangouts Chat (why pay for 2 services when you can do it with 1). However we are getting mixed feedback from our test users… Anyone here with Hangouts Chat experiences?
It has generally gone down pretty well. It has nice features like the way it makes posts in Rooms their own 'threads', and allows the user to enable or disable notifications per 'thread'. Also, as you say, the cost for Chat was included with our G-Suite license.
However, as a SysAdmin it doesn't have the same level of administrator controls that you see in more mature products, such as Slack (and even Discord). In my opinion it is still very much in beta and Google need to keep adding to the admin and end-user features before it really competes with Slack.
Sharepoint, badly. Starting with confluence.
We picked Redmine back in 2012 because you could have multiple repositories in a single project.
[1]: http://www.redmine.org
Using Asana as well for a different project.
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For non software dev, stopped using/didn’t go back to a type of app I’ve always had a soft spot for because of pricing. App being Basecamp and apps heavily influenced by it like Teamwork.com. It’s just myself, my partner, and a freelancer right now. So Basecamp only price of $100/mo and Teamwork having 5 user minimum at $9/mo (so $45/mo), ends up not being worth it. I’d love to find an app like these for a more fair price.
So much email. So, so much. Some Rocketchat usage but not huge.
So I've been building Seat (https://www.useseat.com) to bring the best of Slack and Trello together in addition to document management.
I've been using Discord quite a lot outside of work and it seems like it would work well as a Slack replacement. Has anyone used Discord for work?
Well, the ideal work messenger would be a Slack clone (maybe with threading options) with native apps as clients, instead of javascript turds, but I guess that's never going to happen.
Mattermost https://mattermost.com for instance messaging (way superior to slack, esp. for thread management).
We aren't a tech company (though I subscribe to the every company is a tech company, some just make things) and I'm the only programmer.
Trello is by far the most intuitive tool for none-trivial I've seen, if anyone knows of a better one I'd be interested.
Since Trello had an API I just integrated against that the bits I didn't already have.
* https://ryver.com/ for team communication (Slack clone)
* https://connect.yandex.com (like GSuite, but free)