+1 to Slack. All JUG communities I know are using it. It is also worth to mention that Slack was also adopted by Kubernetes folks. 

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 4:17 PM Katia Aresti <karesti@redhat.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I'm a strong adopter of slack and I really like it. I've used it since it came out with Duchess (we started with an internal use for the team, and we have a community slack now with more that 150 people there that is little by little replacing our google group). I've use it in different communities, startups and big company client's teams. As far as I know, other open-source projects have already adopted it successfully. 

What is cool about it is that joining any team and switching from one team to another is very easy. If people want to join the community, and they are already using slack, is very easy. 

I agree with Sanne, being able to use it from the smartphone is important and could be considered as a high requirement. I use slack on my phone, and it helps quit a lot. Most of the time I use it from my laptop, but there are cases where mobile has really helped us (specially in Duchess France slack). I use the native slack client on my mac and works very well.

I haven't tested Stride or Gitter. 

Katia

On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 11:29 AM, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant@redhat.com> wrote:

HipChat is being replaced by Stride.
I have dimissed HipChat in the past because it did not allow for a
single account to be shared across multiple groups. I believe this will
be solved by Stride.

Tristan

On 10/16/17 11:16 AM, Wolf Fink wrote:
> Why not use Hipchat as EAP/Wildfly to prevent from too many different
> platforms ?
>
> On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:27 AM, Tristan Tarrant <ttarrant@redhat.com

> <mailto:ttarrant@redhat.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear all,
>
>     last week we discussed the possibility of abandoning IRC in favour of a
>     more modern alternative.
>
>     Hard requirements:
>     - free (as in beer)
>     - hosted (we don't want to maintain it ourselves)
>     - multi-platform client: native (Linux, MacOS, Windows), browser
>     - persistent logs
>     - distinction between channel operators and normal users
>     - guest access (without the need for registration)
>     - integration with Jira for issue lookup
>     - integration with GitHub for PR lookup
>     - IRC bridge (so that users can connect with an IRC client)
>     - ability to export data in case we want to move somewhere else
>     - on-the-fly room creation for mini-teams
>
>     Optionals:
>     - Free (as in freedom)
>     - offline notifications (i.e. see if I was notified while away)
>     - mobile client: Android and iOS
>     - proper native client (as most Electron clients are quite fat)
>     - chat logs accessible without a client (it is acceptable if this is
>     achieved via a bot)
>     - integration with Jenkins for CI status
>     - XMPP bridge (so that users can connect with an XMPP client)
>
>     Not needed:
>     - file sharing, audio/video
>
>     Here is a list of candidates:
>     - IRC (i.e. no change)
>     - Slack
>     - Stride (Atlassian's upcoming replacement for HipChat)
>     - Matrix (Matrix.org, unfortunately with funding issues)
>     - Gitter
>     - Discord
>     - Rocket.chat (unfortunately hosting is paid)
>
>     If you have any other suggestions/recommendations, they are more than
>     welcome.
>
>     Tristan
>
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