Promote Rocket Chat instance as an alternative to Slack

Created on 18 March 2018, almost 7 years ago

Updated 18 May 2024, 8 months ago

At DrupalCamp Ruhr, Essen, Germany the local communities decided to go away from slack and choose DrupalChat.eu as the new platform for direct messaging.

Coming from #2490332: Evaluate whether to replace drupal IRC channels with another communication medium → , I wanted to create this follow up so that we can direct the efforts towards going away from Slack and adopting DrupalChat.me.

Related links:

Documentation page on DO: Chat with the Drupal community using DrupalChat.me (Rocketchat) →
Project page for Issues: DrupalChat Service's Issues →

For a discussion of why Slack is not a good solution, please see the other issue. Summary:

Closed source/proprietary
In it for the money: https://slack.com/pricing
"Free" plan is intended for small to medium sized business/teams (Drupal is anything but)
Requires users to register
Architecturally has several types of limitations since their service is based on "small to medium" sized teams: https://medium.freecodecamp.com/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-reg...
Prohibitively expensive to get backsroll
Does not have all of the above requirements
Does not and will not support Open Source communities
Allows users to easily impersonate other users on d.o ( comment #225 → )

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Needs work

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Comment 8 months ago →
🇩🇰Denmark ressa Copenhagen
@rodrigoaguilera just posted a comment in #3032982-12: Slacking Off → which could be relevant to followers of this issue as well.

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