On July 18, 2022, Slack announced that starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will be limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full access to the past
Is there an xmpp client would you would recommend as a slack replacement? Some things which make slack popular include:
full history on the server
fast search (across all channels in an organization)
integration with lots of 3rd party services
the above features working smoothly on both desktop and mobile
As far as I know the free software viable slack alternatives currently are zulip, mattermost, rocketchat, and matrix (element). It isn’t that xmpp couldn’t do what slack does, but if there is a client that does I haven’t seen it.
It is true that Slack like chat work-spaces are not a strong point of XMPP (it shines as a personal messenger), but you can set up a system that fulfills nearly all your requirements (I think search is only per room), with ConverseJS Fullscreen (or Movim), a Prosody server and the newish webhook component. Or with Gajim and Conversations as separate clients.
P.s.: “smoothly on mobile” & element ??? The Mattermost mobile client is also not exactly great. In that area at least XMPP is clearly better.
Is there an xmpp client would you would recommend as a slack replacement? Some things which make slack popular include:
As far as I know the free software viable slack alternatives currently are zulip, mattermost, rocketchat, and matrix (element). It isn’t that xmpp couldn’t do what slack does, but if there is a client that does I haven’t seen it.
It is true that Slack like chat work-spaces are not a strong point of XMPP (it shines as a personal messenger), but you can set up a system that fulfills nearly all your requirements (I think search is only per room), with ConverseJS Fullscreen (or Movim), a Prosody server and the newish webhook component. Or with Gajim and Conversations as separate clients.
P.s.: “smoothly on mobile” & element ??? The Mattermost mobile client is also not exactly great. In that area at least XMPP is clearly better.
You can try Movim, I think it’s most alike from all Xmpp clients.