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Why not Skype as chat app at work
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| * Is distributed with no guarantee of message delivery | |
| * Can delivery some messages to some and not to others | |
| * Or severely delayed to some | |
| * No guarantee of message order | |
| * Does not have a web UI | |
| * Has a shit messy UI | |
| * No company directory lookup - must manually add everyone from global search | |
| * Does not automatically remove people whom leave company from every rooms | |
| * Does not automatically add new staff to company rooms | |
| * No clear separation of work and private accounts | |
| * No easy way to archive nor find old rooms unless you remember everyone in it | |
| * Can not find and join room, invite only | |
| * Does not inline code | |
| * Does not inline gifs | |
| * Does not support hubot, nagios and other alerts and lookups | |
| * Does not tab conversations or multiple windows, | |
| * Does not keep a list of company rooms | |
| * Can not be hosted internally | |
| * Have a limited non extendable emoticon support | |
| * Does not have an email of direct messages or @alls alert option if away | |
| * Does not support cross room feeds | |
| * Does not support cross room topic search | |
| * Terrible discontinued Linux client | |
| * Does not have @all or @here support for announcements | |
| * Can not toggle sidebar | |
| * Calls too integrated into chat UI | |
| Why skype | |
| -- | |
| * Very good for calls | |
| * * if not too many people |
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