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Flowdock vs Gitter: What are the differences?
Developers describe Flowdock as "Flowdock is your team's chat with a shared inbox. Teams using Flowdock react in seconds and never forget anything". Flowdock is a web-based team chat service that integrates with your tools to provide a window into your team's activities. With the team inbox, everyone on your team can stay up to date. Stay connected with Flowdock's iOS and Android apps. On the other hand, Gitter is detailed as "Messaging for people who make software. Integrated with your team, projects and your code". Free chat rooms for your public repositories A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations..
Flowdock and Gitter can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Flowdock are:
- Team Inbox
- Group Chat
- 1-On-1 Private Chat
On the other hand, Gitter provides the following key features:
- Know who's seen any message
- Edit messages after you've sent them
- Full emoji support
"Threaded chat" is the top reason why over 32 developers like Flowdock, while over 62 developers mention "Github integration" as the leading cause for choosing Gitter.
Accenture, Binary.com, and Hazeorid are some of the popular companies that use Gitter, whereas Flowdock is used by Teespring, Opower, and Deveo. Gitter has a broader approval, being mentioned in 25 company stacks & 41 developers stacks; compared to Flowdock, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 5 developer stacks.
From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."
We use Slack to increase productivity by simplifying communication and putting Slack in the middle of our communication workflow #Communications #Collaboration
We use Discord to tracking some action and errors (logs / alerting / assertion). it's free and simple to use with mobile application et notifications
We use Slack because we can let "tools talk to us" and automate processes in our dev team using bots.
Our Discord Server is our n°1 community stop; we gather feedback from our users from here, discuss about new features, announce new releases, and so on.
We even use it for internal meetings and calls !
Pros of Flowdock
- Threaded chat34
- Simpler integrations than others, team inbox = awesome30
- Great interface18
- Extremely easy to manage multiple conversations17
- Powerful Search and Tagging Architecture15
- Team Inbox15
- Email and RSS integration for apps w no API12
- See what the team is actually working on9
- Comment on anything you see or do5
- Spark conversations around activity3
- Threads and tags make it great2
- Threaded Inbox for Integrations2
- Threaded chat and separate inbox for integrations2
- Free1
Pros of Gitter
- Github integration63
- Free55
- Markdown support45
- Markdown19
- Graceful integration17
- Project-oriented16
- MARKDOOOOWN15
- IRC bridge12
- Integrates with everything9
- LaTeX8
- Apps available for most platforms4
- Cross-repository issue reference2
- Github login2
- IRC support1
- My new fav'rite thing is on it1
- Very fast work1
- Very open1
- Now open source1
- Open source1
- Free unlimited archives1
- Open access (no invitation needed)1
- Single account for all communities1
- Free, open & free hosting1
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Cons of Flowdock
Cons of Gitter
- Sends data to US Gov2
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