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Christopher Semmler
CEO at Leonis Holding · | 3 upvotes · 41K views

Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.

Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.

The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.

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Stefan Schuchlenz

We chose RocketChat over other communications suites like Cliq or Slack mainly because we can self-host it on our own infrastructure. Since we have quite some projects going on which demand that we stay in touch with a lot of different stakeholders, pricing was an issue, too. With RocketChat, we have a huge set of features basically for free, RC offers apps for all major devices and systems and overall, we're very happy with it. The only downside is the limited amount of apps and integrations, but we can make due with what we have available.

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Pros of Actor
Pros of HipChat
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    • 144
      Integrates well with a lot of developer tools
    • 96
      Developer-friendly
    • 85
      Clients for every major platform
    • 70
      Free unlimited users
    • 70
      Mobile-friendly
    • 40
      Extremely easy to use for non-tech guys
    • 39
      Good api integration
    • 38
      Irc-like
    • 28
      Reliable
    • 26
      Feature rich
    • 13
      Affordable at $2/user
    • 6
      Email notifications
    • 6
      Text Messages
    • 4
      More developer-friendly than Skype
    • 3
      Full text search
    • 3
      JIRA integration
    • 3
      Integrates with Atlassian products
    • 2
      Team Chat Rooms
    • 1
      Intergration with all the things
    • 1
      gitlab
    • 1
      tagia
    • 1
      256-bit SSL encryption to transmit your data
    • 1
      Fast
    • 1
      On-Premise deployment
    • 1
      Trello integration
    • 1
      salt
    • 72
      Open source
    • 38
      Can be deployed on premise
    • 32
      Byos (bring your own server)
    • 30
      Faster than Slack
    • 21
      Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch
    • 19
      Built using meteor
    • 19
      Desktop client for mac and windows
    • 13
      Easily deployed on Cloud Services (Heroku, etc)
    • 10
      Screen Sharing
    • 9
      Video and audio
    • 9
      Excellent support & service, bar-none
    • 6
      Web client
    • 5
      Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS
    • 5
      Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc
    • 5
      Docker Image for easy setup
    • 5
      Open source
    • 5
      Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick
    • 4
      Datacontrol
    • 4
      Great development team
    • 4
      Free
    • 2
      Love it - running on R Pi 2
    • 2
      Open source server
    • 1
      Broadcast & Readonly channels
    • 1
      Slack bridge
    • 1
      Linux Client Support
    • 1
      Flexible Integrations
    • 1
      Ldap integration
    • 0
      Threading model

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    Cons of Actor
    Cons of HipChat
    Cons of RocketChat
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      • 1
        Purchased by and merged with Slack
      • 1
        Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack
      • 1
        No full markdown support
      • 1
        Mobile app in Enterprise version only
      • 1
        Many basic features require plugins
      • 1
        Visioconference support is external
      • 1
        No screen recorder
      • 1
        Few options for user customization
      • 1
        Limited message history on SaaS
      • 1
        Poor user customization
      • 1
        Hard to upgrade
      • 1
        Not as well-known as others like it

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      What is Actor?

      Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services.

      What is HipChat?

      HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.

      What is RocketChat?

      Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

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