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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by SomeHacker44 on Friday July 27, 2018 @08:39AM (#17625488)
We did this at my company; we already had self hosted free GitLab. We tied it into our AD and went happily without Hipchat about a year ago. Some things are rougher (image support) but it was mostly smooth and equivalent, and actually nicer in that it supported Markdown.

Recommended. And, a lot cheaper than Slack which is insanely expensive ($72/user/year) - of course it is not free as it takes up AWS server resources and DevOps time, but we control all our data and security now.

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by hnbroseph on Friday July 27, 2018 @11:53AM (#17626875)
> We tied it into our AD

sorry if it's obvious but do you mean Active Directory?

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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by surge on Friday July 27, 2018 @12:12PM (#17627015)
98% likely that they do.
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Re:Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian by SomeHacker44 on Sunday July 29, 2018 @09:54PM (#17641539)
Yes, I do. Sorry for the abbreviation. We used the LDAP connector that is publicly available in GitLab and then tied Mattermost into GitLab authentication.
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