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Pros of HipChat
- Integrates well with a lot of developer tools144
- Developer-friendly96
- Clients for every major platform85
- Free unlimited users70
- Mobile-friendly70
- Extremely easy to use for non-tech guys40
- Good api integration39
- Irc-like38
- Reliable28
- Feature rich26
- Affordable at $2/user13
- Email notifications6
- Text Messages6
- More developer-friendly than Skype4
- Full text search3
- JIRA integration3
- Integrates with Atlassian products3
- Team Chat Rooms2
- Intergration with all the things1
- gitlab1
- tagia1
- 256-bit SSL encryption to transmit your data1
- Fast1
- On-Premise deployment1
- Trello integration1
- salt1
Pros of Slack
- Easy to integrate with1.2K
- Excellent interface on multiple platforms876
- Free849
- Mobile friendly694
- People really enjoy using it690
- Great integrations331
- Flexible notification preferences315
- Unlimited users198
- Strong search and data archiving184
- Multi domain switching support155
- Easy to use82
- Beautiful40
- Hubot support27
- Unread/read control22
- Slackbot21
- Permalink for each messages19
- Text snippet with highlighting17
- Quote message easily15
- Per-room notification14
- Awesome integration support13
- IRC gateway12
- Star for each message / attached files12
- Good communication within a team11
- Dropbox Integration11
- Jira Integration10
- Slick, search is great10
- New Relic Integration9
- Great communication tool8
- Asana Integration8
- Combine All Services Quickly8
- Awesomeness7
- This tool understands developers7
- Google Drive Integration7
- XMPP gateway7
- Replaces email6
- Twitter Integration6
- Google Docs Integration6
- BitBucket integration6
- GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback5
- Jenkins Integration5
- Guest and Restricted user control5
- Gathers all my communications in one place4
- Clean UI4
- GitHub integration4
- Excellent multi platform internal communication tool4
- Mention list view4
- Perfect implementation of chat + integrations3
- Android app3
- Visual Studio Integration3
- Easy to start working with3
- Easy3
- Easy to add a reaction3
- Timely while non intrusive3
- Great on-boarding3
- Threaded chat3
- Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams2
- Message Actions2
- Simplicity2
- So much better than email2
- It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC2
- Great Channel Customization2
- Great interface2
- Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations2
- Markdown2
- API1
- Easy remote communication1
- Get less busy1
- Targetprocess integration1
- Better User Experience1
- Multi work-space support1
- Travis CI integration1
- It's the coolest IM ever1
- Dev communication Made Easy1
- Community1
- Integrates with just about everything1
- Great API1
- Very customizable1
- Great Support Team1
- Flexible and Accessible1
- Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock1
- Archive Importing1
- Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT1
- Watch1
- I was 666 star :D1
- Easy to useL0
- Platforms0
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Cons of HipChat
- Purchased by and merged with Slack1
- Discontinued with the Atlassian Stack1
Cons of Slack
- Can be distracting depending on how you use it13
- Requires some management for large teams6
- Limit messages history6
- Too expensive5
- You don't really own your messages5
- Too many notifications by default4
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What is Actor?
Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services.
What is HipChat?
HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.
What is Slack?
Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
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