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Best chat app to replace RocketChat?


Hey y’all. I have a service over at Seeking Alpha, and they use RocketChat for chat, and it is beyond awful under normal circumstances, and also going down frequently in the last two weeks. Any suggestions for something close to a drop-in replacement?

[Edit] Currently looking at Element.io. Any thoughts on that? Based on matrix.org.

  👤 msgi Accepted Answer ✓
Element is great. I feel like it's more of a replacement for social IM than work IM (Like RocketChat). I've been using it for almost a year.

An easy way to deploy a matrix server is through Freedombox [1]. After installing it, enable Matrix and Coturn [2] in the dashboard and enjoy.

By the way, if you don't want to use FCM then download Element from Fdroid, otherwise you can download it from Play Store

Warning: Be careful using the API to delete all history of a room, there may be bugs.[3]

[1] https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Hardware/Debian

[2] https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox/Manual

[3] https://matrix-org.github.io/synapse/latest/admin_api/purge_...

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