Re:Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all ...
by e12e on Monday May 14, 2018 @06:50PM
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Last I looked, only rocket.chat had a sane, minimal docker-compose setup that worked for getting started. I'm not thrilled about the mongodb dependency - but my overall impression of rocket.chat was very good. And the rest api is well documented and easy to work with.
It may be that zulip has "scaled down" a bit now - when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s.
(Not meant as a dig at zulip, I think it's awesome that the project was made open source!)
Re:Enter the Matrix – A technical overview and guide to all ...
by rishig on Tuesday May 15, 2018 @07:05AM
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> when I looked, it seemed you got the complexity of serving 10k users even if you only had 100s.
haha, that's a good way to put it. We've put in a lot of work over the last few months to make Zulip easier to deploy for a team of 20.
> Last I looked, only rocket.chat had a sane, minimal docker-compose setup
Fair enough! It's on our roadmap, so hopefully we'll have it by the next time you're looking for a chat :).
With an IRC- or Slack-like communication model, waking up to 100+ new messages every morning is a big drain on time and energy. Also, once a channel starts getting 100+ messages a day, it stops being useful for real communication. If someone starts a conversation at 10am, and you come by after lunch, it's hard to respond in context.
You can see how Zulip solves this problem on the Zulip community server, https://chat.zulip.org (send test messages to "#test here", follow the code of conduct, etc., it's a live server). Feel free to PM me there if you set things up and have any questions/feedback.
To address a previous post: Zulip, Mattermost, and Rocket.chat all take about 5 minutes to install, so I wouldn't worry too much about that. Zulip and Rocket.chat also come with SaaS versions if you don't want to run your own infrastructure.