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Gitter vs Ripcord: What are the differences?
What is Gitter? Messaging for people who make software. Integrated with your team, projects and your code. Free chat rooms for your public repositories A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations..
What is Ripcord? A desktop chat client for Discord and Slack. A desktop chat client for group-centric services like Slack and Discord. It provides a traditional compact desktop interface designed for power users.
Gitter and Ripcord can be primarily classified as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Gitter are:
- Know who's seen any message
- Edit messages after you've sent them
- Full emoji support
On the other hand, Ripcord provides the following key features:
- Custom bookmark lists
- Customizable fonts, colors, and sizes
- Variable DPI and multi-monitor support
From a StackShare Community member: “We’re about to start a chat group for our open source project (over 5K stars on GitHub) so we can let our community collaborate more closely. The obvious choice would be Slack (k8s and a ton of major projects use it), but we’ve seen Gitter (webpack uses it) for a lot of open source projects, Discord (Vue.js moved to them), and as of late I’m seeing Spectrum more and more often. Does anyone have experience with these or other alternatives? Is it even worth assessing all these options, or should we just go with Slack? Some things that are important to us: free, all the regular integrations (GitHub, Heroku, etc), mobile & desktop apps, and open source is of course a plus."
We use Slack to increase productivity by simplifying communication and putting Slack in the middle of our communication workflow #Communications #Collaboration
We use Discord to tracking some action and errors (logs / alerting / assertion). it's free and simple to use with mobile application et notifications
We use Slack because we can let "tools talk to us" and automate processes in our dev team using bots.
Our Discord Server is our n°1 community stop; we gather feedback from our users from here, discuss about new features, announce new releases, and so on.
We even use it for internal meetings and calls !
Pros of Gitter
- Github integration63
- Free55
- Markdown support45
- Markdown19
- Graceful integration17
- Project-oriented16
- MARKDOOOOWN15
- IRC bridge12
- Integrates with everything9
- LaTeX8
- Apps available for most platforms4
- Cross-repository issue reference2
- Github login2
- IRC support1
- My new fav'rite thing is on it1
- Very fast work1
- Very open1
- Now open source1
- Open source1
- Free unlimited archives1
- Open access (no invitation needed)1
- Single account for all communities1
- Free, open & free hosting1
Pros of Ripcord
- Light mode, Dark mode, Green mode, Pink mode, TSTL1
- Antiquated user interface (this can be a pro or a con)1
- Free1
- Low CPU and memory usage, Zero GPU usage1
- Small resource footprint1
- Traditional and compact1
- Customizable fonts, colors, and sizes1
- Multiple accounts1
- Tabs1
- Optimized for power users1
- Works with both Discord and Slack1
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Cons of Gitter
- Sends data to US Gov2
Cons of Ripcord
- Antiquated user interface (this can be a pro or a con)1
- Little confusing for newbies1
- Illegal according to the Policy of Discord1
