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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by colanderman on Thursday December 20, 2018 @09:33AM (#18725157)
What a great reason to switch to an open-source, self-hosted solution. Fortunately there exist several:

http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/

https://rocket.chat/

https://mattermost.com/

https://zulipchat.com/

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by eigenspace on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:51AM (#18726508)
Has anyone here used any of these? I'd love to hear your thoughts vs Slack.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by e_proxus on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:06PM (#18727328)
From my experience with Rocket Chat I'd argue it's about a 30% implementation of Slack when it comes to features and polish.

My favorite gripe with it is that quickly typing half a username and auto completing will select the first (or some random) user that's doesn't have anything to do with what you typed. It's a real pain if you're a fast typist.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by clarry on Thursday December 20, 2018 @03:07PM (#18728626)
I use mattermost at work. It's terrible. Coworkers don't seem particularly impressed with it either.

Can't compare it to Slack though, since I never used it.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by joncrane on Thursday December 20, 2018 @01:19PM (#18727483)
Mattermost is the only one I've used and it's both easy to administer and works great.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by igolden on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:39AM (#18726378)
mattermost is awesome, and super easy to get up and running. +1 for them
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