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Rocket.Chat

Open-source team chat and collaboration platform

Team Chat ★ 45.9k stars Medium setup MIT

Rocket.Chat is an open-source team communication platform offering channels, direct messages, voice, video, and omnichannel support. It targets organizations wanting a self-hosted Slack alternative. It is deployed via Docker or Snap.

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Key features

  • Channels, DMs and threads
  • Voice and video calls
  • Omnichannel customer support
  • Apps and integrations

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Feature-rich Slack alternative
  • Strong integrations
  • Self-hostable

Trade-offs

  • Heavy resource use
  • Some features gated to paid plans

Rocket.Chat replaces

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