The chat situation

Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Fri Jun 12 21:00:58 BST 2020


Hey,

On Friday, June 12, 2020 12:50:25 AM EEST Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Carl Schwan - 11.06.20, 15:15:36 CEST:
> > Maybe it is the time to consider other open-source alternatives like
> > Mattermost or Rocket Chat... GNOME did it, Blender did it, we even
> > have a Rocket Chat client in KDE now!
> 
> We do have Rocket.Chat at work and I can say I am quite happy with it.
> It is not perfect, but good enough, for me at least. Although especially
> threads are cumbersome UI wise. Sharing images or other files works quite
> well.
> 
> I am using the official Electron client still, but there is a KDE/Qt based
> one, called Ruqola? Never tried it out so far.

Rocket Chat has its share of problems, it can suffer e.g from lags and the 
clients (except Ruqola) are using a lot of memory. Ruqola is already usable, 
but not so pretty yet (sorry guys ;) ).
 Otherwise feature wise Rocket Chat is nice. I don't like its (or Slack's) 
threads, but YMMV.

Andras







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