Teams | Collaboration | Customer Service | Project Management

Skype Vs Slack: The best or the better! Which one would you choose?

In 2011, Microsoft acquired Skype for $8.5 billion and turned it into a terrific program for voice and video communication and a winning investment. In 2018, Slack signed a contract with AWS to spend at least $250 million a year for five years to enrich the Slack platform and take the ‘business collaboration software market’ by storm.

Slack Alternatives 2020: Choosing the right team chat on the market

Do you find Slack too cluttered and expensive, but afraid switching to a lesser-known alternative? In this video, we’ll allay your fears. I'm Olga from Chanty – a company on a mission to build a clean and simple team chat to get more things done together. Our team explored the ins and outs of existing communication tools to improve our own team chat with all the necessary strengths and features.

Bored of Skype? Try these 9 alternatives to change the way you work.

Technological advancements have the uncanny strength of pushing over top-performing apps down the hill. Innovation brings in better utilities for the benefit of the user community. Skype seems to be weathering that for quite some time before being on the way out, almost.

Rocket.Chat is moving its mobile apps to React Native

You may have noticed a lot of recent changes with the mobile apps. Rocket.Chat has been maintaining two native versions of the mobile app, one for Android and one for iOS. This has proved to be quite problematic and we had to split our resources which is inefficient. We therefore made the decision to build a new app based on a common framework. After months of deliberation, testing, and lots of community help, we have finally decided to move to the proven React Native framework.

Changes to notification behavior

Rocket.Chat has always tried to be smart when sending mobile notifications. We don’t want to disturb you with useless notifications, but we understand this is confusing to our users. Users expect notifications and think there are bugs when none are actually being sent. We have created a diagram to show the current conditions that cause Rocket.Chat to send a notification.