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Re:Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces by tapoxi on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @11:43AM (#17409074)
There's plenty of decent XMPP clients, like Spark (https://igniterealtime.org/projects/spark/) but they'd take an IT team to configure.

Matrix has Riot (https://riot.im/app) but personally I find it incredibly confusing.

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Re:Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces by sanderjd on Wednesday June 27, 2018 @04:05PM (#17411343)
I'll have to take a look at Spark.

I don't think it's a problem if something needs to be initially deployed and configured by an IT department (or otherwise tech savvy individual or group), as long as its onboarding and primary usage flows are straightforward. An arbitrary non-tech-savvy but internet-familiar employee needs to be able to create an account, browse and join rooms, and search through history without any hand-holding. Slack and its direct competitors pass this test. IRC doesn't. Does Spark?

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Re:Slack outage: Connectivity issues affecting all workspaces by tapoxi on Thursday June 28, 2018 @09:27AM (#17416651)
It's certainly the closest of all XMPP clients I've used, since it has a very friendly interface. Their related Openfire XMPP server is also targeted at internal deployments and is very easy to configure with a web UI.
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