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Actor

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Slack

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Pros of Actor
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    • 72
      Open source
    • 38
      Can be deployed on premise
    • 32
      Byos (bring your own server)
    • 30
      Faster than Slack
    • 21
      Mobile app for iphone, ipad, and ipod touch
    • 19
      Built using meteor
    • 19
      Desktop client for mac and windows
    • 13
      Easily deployed on Cloud Services (Heroku, etc)
    • 10
      Screen Sharing
    • 9
      Video and audio
    • 9
      Excellent support & service, bar-none
    • 6
      Web client
    • 5
      Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS
    • 5
      Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc
    • 5
      Docker Image for easy setup
    • 5
      Open source
    • 5
      Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick
    • 4
      Datacontrol
    • 4
      Great development team
    • 4
      Free
    • 2
      Love it - running on R Pi 2
    • 2
      Open source server
    • 1
      Broadcast & Readonly channels
    • 1
      Slack bridge
    • 1
      Linux Client Support
    • 1
      Flexible Integrations
    • 1
      Ldap integration
    • 0
      Threading model
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      Easy to integrate with
    • 876
      Excellent interface on multiple platforms
    • 849
      Free
    • 694
      Mobile friendly
    • 690
      People really enjoy using it
    • 331
      Great integrations
    • 315
      Flexible notification preferences
    • 198
      Unlimited users
    • 184
      Strong search and data archiving
    • 155
      Multi domain switching support
    • 82
      Easy to use
    • 40
      Beautiful
    • 27
      Hubot support
    • 22
      Unread/read control
    • 21
      Slackbot
    • 19
      Permalink for each messages
    • 17
      Text snippet with highlighting
    • 15
      Quote message easily
    • 14
      Per-room notification
    • 13
      Awesome integration support
    • 12
      IRC gateway
    • 12
      Star for each message / attached files
    • 11
      Good communication within a team
    • 11
      Dropbox Integration
    • 10
      Jira Integration
    • 10
      Slick, search is great
    • 9
      New Relic Integration
    • 8
      Great communication tool
    • 8
      Asana Integration
    • 8
      Combine All Services Quickly
    • 7
      Awesomeness
    • 7
      This tool understands developers
    • 7
      Google Drive Integration
    • 7
      XMPP gateway
    • 6
      Replaces email
    • 6
      Twitter Integration
    • 6
      Google Docs Integration
    • 6
      BitBucket integration
    • 5
      GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback
    • 5
      Jenkins Integration
    • 5
      Guest and Restricted user control
    • 4
      Gathers all my communications in one place
    • 4
      Clean UI
    • 4
      GitHub integration
    • 4
      Excellent multi platform internal communication tool
    • 4
      Mention list view
    • 3
      Perfect implementation of chat + integrations
    • 3
      Android app
    • 3
      Visual Studio Integration
    • 3
      Easy to start working with
    • 3
      Easy
    • 3
      Easy to add a reaction
    • 3
      Timely while non intrusive
    • 3
      Great on-boarding
    • 3
      Threaded chat
    • 2
      Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams
    • 2
      Message Actions
    • 2
      Simplicity
    • 2
      So much better than email
    • 2
      It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC
    • 2
      Great Channel Customization
    • 2
      Great interface
    • 2
      Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations
    • 2
      Markdown
    • 1
      API
    • 1
      Easy remote communication
    • 1
      Get less busy
    • 1
      Targetprocess integration
    • 1
      Better User Experience
    • 1
      Multi work-space support
    • 1
      Travis CI integration
    • 1
      It's the coolest IM ever
    • 1
      Dev communication Made Easy
    • 1
      Community
    • 1
      Integrates with just about everything
    • 1
      Great API
    • 1
      Very customizable
    • 1
      Great Support Team
    • 1
      Flexible and Accessible
    • 1
      Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock
    • 1
      Archive Importing
    • 1
      Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT
    • 1
      Watch
    • 1
      I was 666 star :D
    • 0
      Easy to useL
    • 0
      Platforms

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    Cons of Actor
    Cons of RocketChat
    Cons of Slack
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      • 1
        No full markdown support
      • 1
        Mobile app in Enterprise version only
      • 1
        Many basic features require plugins
      • 1
        Visioconference support is external
      • 1
        No screen recorder
      • 1
        Few options for user customization
      • 1
        Limited message history on SaaS
      • 1
        Poor user customization
      • 1
        Hard to upgrade
      • 1
        Not as well-known as others like it
      • 13
        Can be distracting depending on how you use it
      • 6
        Requires some management for large teams
      • 6
        Limit messages history
      • 5
        Too expensive
      • 5
        You don't really own your messages
      • 4
        Too many notifications by default

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      What is Actor?

      Actor is a platform for instant messaging. Actor provides features like large group chats; unlimited history storage; send/receive documents, photo, and video; authentication with one time password for phone number/email or OAuth2; easy integrations with external services.

      What is RocketChat?

      Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.

      What is Slack?

      Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.

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