Yes, the entire design of Rocket.Chat can be customized. Rocket.Chat did not have anything like Workspaces in Slack, but this OTR was new and quite helpful while sharing sensitive information. Yes, OTR - an Off-The-Record session that allows you to chat with another user, where the entire conversation remains end-to-end encrypted and gets deleted once the session ends. But one that caught our attention the most was OTR. Right from channels to private chats, direct messaging, live chat, unlimited uploads, chat history and many more. Rocket.Chat is loaded with a bagful of features that meets our expectations from a chatbot. Security of Slack was shaken back in the year 2015 when it was hacked and the hackers had an access to the main database and all user-profiles for four whole days. Slack does not provide the option of self-hosting and hence the control of CIA and security remains in their hands. It also allows the custom file upload, which lets one have a control over where the chat data be stored. One can also download the software for free and install and run it on their own server. In a self-hosted chatbot, the control of CIA remains in the hands of the user. Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability, on their own. Rocket.Chat is an open-source chatbot and hence it is also self-hosted. This makes its library rich and freely accessible to users. Slack does not provide such features for free since it’s not a part of the open source community. Because in an open source community, everyone creates and contributes a different feature for free. In fact, that is the very reason why it allows you with a bundle of free features. Rocket.Chat is an open source, unlike Slack. Let us share a few more such benefits of using Rocket.Chat while researching.įirst thing first. But we also believe that technically it’s a downside to be forced to use MongoDB in order to use Meteor. In fact, Slack-clone(Rocket.Chat) is exactly the kind of use case where Meteor is used to its full potential. It’s made in Meteor and we’re kind of fond of it too.
Rocket.Chat is an open-source project that has been one major competitor of Slack and actively developing over the past few years. It was right here when we started thinking about looking for a better alternative to suit our expectation and Rocket.Chat crossed our mind! And a growing company like us cannot afford to buy the paid version when most of our expenses are supposed to be focusing the other aspects of the company. The free trial version allowed an access up to just 1000 last messages to be reviewed. But we required an access to some of its paid features, like the history of all conversations along with the search function, possibility of unlimited uploads, et al. In fact, its free trial version is also really competent. Slack is one of the best tools available today. And this one here is all about it, sharing some experience, insights, and reasons to make a switch to Rocket.Chat. But there were several reasons that pushed us further for a switch. We had been using Slack, for a long time. Well, the fact is that we have recently made a major move by switching to Rocket.Chat from Slack. You must be thinking what made us the preachy philosophers from a booming IT company. One has to let go something very dear to them with time, in order to find a better alternative that’s more beneficial to them. Yet, they have been doing it time and again for different reasons, which majorly starts with a problem first and leads through the process of problem-solving and lastly finding a solution.
Be it moving on from a person, place or any other thing for that matter. Moving on has, apparently, been one of the most difficult things for human because, attachment.