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Facebook Workplace vs RocketChat: What are the differences?

Facebook Workplace: An online team collaboration tool. Communicate, collaborate and connect across desktop and mobile, using familiar features such as groups, chat and video calls. Because anything is possible when people work together; RocketChat: Open source slack alternative. 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..

Facebook Workplace and RocketChat can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

RocketChat is an open source tool with 23.6K GitHub stars and 5.1K GitHub forks. Here's a link to RocketChat's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, RocketChat has a broader approval, being mentioned in 51 company stacks & 151 developers stacks; compared to Facebook Workplace, which is listed in 8 company stacks and 6 developer stacks.

Decisions about Facebook Workplace and RocketChat
Stefan Schuchlenz
CEO / CTO at DROOM! · | 5 upvotes · 159.5K views
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We chose RocketChat over other communications suites like Cliq or Slack mainly because we can self-host it on our own infrastructure. Since we have quite some projects going on which demand that we stay in touch with a lot of different stakeholders, pricing was an issue, too. With RocketChat, we have a huge set of features basically for free, RC offers apps for all major devices and systems and overall, we're very happy with it. The only downside is the limited amount of apps and integrations, but we can make due with what we have available.

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Pros of Facebook Workplace
Pros of RocketChat
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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
      Excellent support & service, bar-none
    • 9
      Video and audio
    • 6
      Web client
    • 5
      Mobile app for android phone, tablet, and tv stick
    • 5
      Docker Image for easy setup
    • 5
      Open source
    • 5
      Multiple Security integrations - LDAP etc
    • 5
      Amazing product, fast moving development, and BYOS
    • 4
      Great development team
    • 4
      Free
    • 4
      Datacontrol
    • 2
      Love it - running on R Pi 2
    • 2
      Open source server
    • 1
      Slack bridge
    • 1
      Broadcast & Readonly channels
    • 1
      Linux Client Support
    • 1
      Flexible Integrations
    • 1
      Ldap integration
    • 0
    • 0
      Threading model

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    Cons of Facebook Workplace
    Cons of RocketChat
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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

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      What is Facebook Workplace?

      Communicate, collaborate and connect across desktop and mobile, using familiar features such as groups, chat and video calls. Because anything is possible when people work together.

      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.

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      What are some alternatives to Facebook Workplace and RocketChat?
      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.
      Yammer
      Yammer brings the power of social networking to your company. Collaborate securely across departments, geographies, content and business applications.
      Microsoft Teams
      See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.
      Zoom
      Zoom unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and cross platform group chat into one easy-to-use platform. Our solution offers the best video, audio, and screen-sharing experience across Zoom Rooms, Windows, Mac, iOS, Android, and H.323/SIP room systems.
      Basecamp
      Basecamp is a project management and group collaboration tool. The tool includes features for schedules, tasks, files, and messages.
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