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Of course, if you’re not interested in all the nuts and bolts of setting up platforms, feel free to use the hosted free and paid versions of RocketChat.

You can deploy from just about anywhere actually as long as your clients/users can access the IP/URL. We set it up behind OpenLiteSpeed as a reverse proxy and we are using CloudFlare to further bokeh our RC.

Finally, the entire setup for our 30 odd tenants sits on a USD10/month (RM40) DigitalOcean droplet.

RC also has pretty good documentation for installation, admin, user and developer.

First one you see here is with jitsi, second one is with BigBlueButton RC supports integration into BigBlueButton (which is a collaboration and video conferencing platform as well but with whiteboards and a little more features than Jitsi). Jitsi meet is an open source video conferencing solution that’s based on Java and it’s super awesome.

Integration into et is our default VC platform.

Integrations Video and Voice Conferencing.

You can also assign granular roles to users just in case you become lazy like me, to manage the platform 🙂.

So please, speak to me in Persian, i am game.

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Multilingual support is also amazing plus on top of that, you can integrate with translation services from Google, Bing etc.

I personally do not like chatting on website, let alone chatbots which are the most annoying thing since Steve Buscemi’s eyes pasted on much loved animated characters.

As for chatbots, you can also create a livechat component on your website which then can be replied inside RC itself.

It helps you focus on that discussion alone without getting into the pile of haystack of discussions that come in groups like “general” or “public chat”. Thread, like you see in the bottom right image, is superbly intuitive.

Threaded discussions which WhatsApp doesn’t have, unless you create groups.

End to end encryption of chats as well, which are kinda off-the-record style messaging.

Besides that, we can easily share files inside chats.

Most if not all functions of WhatsApp (including video/voice - later) can be done from RC as well.

The UI is clean, it’s pleasing to the eyes and it’s extremely responsive and fast.

Big team discussions can be clobbered sometimes that you get a fatigue, miss messages, ignore important ones too because of it.

For example, we have a technical department, and for a project we wanted to focus on discussions for that project, so we created a discussion called “Maybank” within the main technical channel, and all related topics were neatly tucked in there This is especially nice to have for complex collaboration.

Segregation of topics and segway off into a sub-discussions is one of my favorite feature.

Invites are through URL or email, for example. And if you don’t have or don’t want any of it, off the box, you can just sign in with the database usernames/password and invite others to join as well, as an admin. Just about any kind of authentication commonly in used, can be used for RC as well.

Users can be provisioned or integrated with just about any kind of OAUTH service, LDAP, AD, SAML and so on.

Most people these days would just go with Docker as it’s kinda easy to setup and deploy in just about anywhere. So as we said earlier, we got it running on Debian (just like Ubuntu only faster and lighter). Here are other ways you can get it up and running for you. The way we did it was to set it up from scratch on Debian 9 operating system. There are many ways to get it up and running for your needs and it’s super easy. However, the mobile app wasn’t close to satisfactory.

RocketChat (RC) however was the choice then for it’s amazingly fast UI and features. I’ve had experience with Mattermost and RocketChat long back. Of course there are a multitude of options out there, from the market leaders, Slack and Teams to open source ones like Mattermost, ZulipChat and RocketChat.īut we needed more flexibility and of course, cost was an important factor, not the most, as we are willing to pay for a good solution, but we think, if there is an open source as-good product, why not give that a try. We felt we need something that can help us focus, keep chats succinct and in one place. And not to forget, heaps of forwarded stuff that’s hardly work related that keeps getting mixed up with work stuff. I mean, WhatsApp was fabulous, no doubt, but there was too much noise. Back in the earlier days of the lockdown, we needed to take our teams communications a notch higher.

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