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Huddle vs Slack: What are the differences?
Developers describe Huddle as "The Enterprise Content Collaboration Platform". Huddle is conversations around content to move projects forward. It’s one copy of a file, saved in the cloud, for your team to work from. It’s being absolutely sure you’re working from the right version every time. It’s one secure, organized place for all your files, available anytime you need it, from whatever device you’re on. It’s the fastest, most secure environment you can customize—so it works the way you do. On the other hand, Slack is detailed as "Bring all your communication together in one place". 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.
Huddle belongs to "Project Management" category of the tech stack, while Slack can be primarily classified under "Group Chat & Notifications".
Some of the features offered by Huddle are:
- Share files
- Track actions
- Work securely
On the other hand, Slack provides the following key features:
- Create open channels for the projects, groups and topics that the whole team shares.
- Search with context
- Autocomplete makes mentioning your teammates quick and painless.
Keybase is a powerful and secure team-organizing software. And because Keybase is so transparently good at what it does, Keybase is a foundational software that facilitates the future of work: effective, inclusive, secure Remote Teams.
Keybase is a free, end-to-end encrypted, open-source program with almost limitless flexibility. Each Keybase user or team is a unique cryptographic identity. Each message or interaction that a user has with a team or other user, is verifiable and digitally-signed. Custom combinations of users/teams/bots, can be designed to catalyze Remote Teams of all kinds, this process can also be automated. Keybase includes Git integration for versioning, bots from multiple platforms to facilitate audio/video-conferencing, a Cryptocurrency wallet, and many advanced privacy features to make you more or less traceable.
Services like Slack and Discord are centralized platforms that perform analytics on your behavior and can sell or leak this data to 3rd parties. Any audio/video features available within Slack or Discord, are bound to be less secure and less flexible than excellent alternatives such as Jitsi. Slack and Discord do have a fun, causal feel to them, which can potentially facilitate social engagement in certain conditions (also many users are already on these platforms).
Centralized and Proprietary team platforms such as Discord and Slack have a large market presence (at least in the USA) based on their first-mover advantage, name recognition, and network effects from size. However these products do not have the flexibility or power of Keybase. Keybase excels on its own excellence, and also has an open and active developer community.
Find us on Keybase: @remotorteam (Keybase username) @remotor.public (Public Keybase Team)
We tried out a handful of communication tools including Slack, Microsoft Teams, and Google Hangouts Chat, before settling with Mattermost.
The customisability offered through your server's system console is unrivalled and in some ways overwhelming with the sheer amount of options that you're provided with.
All communication tools share 99% of their UI with each other, and Mattermost is no different, but that's not a bad thing. It also seems to have a less cluttered interface than the others we had tried, although I can't pinpoint the specific design choice that is the reason for this.
The fact that we can have control over all of our data (we're self-hosting it through AWS on a single EC2 instance) is also a great plus which none of the options that we looked into offered.
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.
Pros of Huddle
Pros of Slack
- Easy to integrate with1.2K
- Excellent interface on multiple platforms875
- Free845
- Mobile friendly691
- People really enjoy using it687
- Great integrations329
- Flexible notification preferences314
- Unlimited users196
- Strong search and data archiving184
- Multi domain switching support154
- Easy to use79
- Beautiful38
- Hubot support27
- Unread/read control22
- Slackbot20
- Permalink for each messages18
- Text snippet with highlighting17
- Quote message easily15
- Per-room notification14
- Awesome integration support13
- IRC gateway12
- Star for each message / attached files12
- Good communication within a team11
- Dropbox Integration11
- Jira Integration10
- Slick, search is great10
- New Relic Integration9
- Great communication tool8
- Combine All Services Quickly8
- Asana Integration8
- Awesomeness7
- This tool understands developers7
- Google Drive Integration7
- Replaces email6
- BitBucket integration6
- XMPP gateway6
- Twitter Integration6
- Google Docs Integration6
- GREAT Customer Support / Quick Response to Feedback5
- Jenkins Integration5
- Guest and Restricted user control5
- Gathers all my communications in one place4
- Excellent multi platform internal communication tool4
- GitHub integration4
- Mention list view4
- Easy to start working with3
- Visual Studio Integration3
- Perfect implementation of chat + integrations3
- Easy3
- Easy to add a reaction3
- Clean UI3
- Timely while non intrusive3
- Great on-boarding3
- Threaded chat3
- Intuitive, easy to use, great integrations2
- Simplicity2
- Great interface2
- So much better than email2
- Message Actions2
- Great Channel Customization2
- It's basically an improved (although closed) IRC2
- Eases collaboration for geographically dispersed teams2
- Android app2
- Great API1
- Very customizable1
- API1
- Easy remote communication1
- Get less busy1
- Targetprocess integration1
- Better User Experience1
- Finally with terrible "threading"—I miss Flowdock1
- Archive Importing1
- Great Support Team1
- Complete with plenty of Electron BLOAT1
- Markdown1
- Multi work-space support1
- Flexible and Accessible1
- Travis CI integration1
- It's the coolest IM ever1
- I was 666 star :D1
- Community1
- Dev communication Made Easy1
- Integrates with just about everything1
- Easy to useL0
- Platforms0
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Cons of Huddle
Cons of Slack
- Can be distracting depending on how you use it12
- Requires some management for large teams6
- Limit messages history5
- Too expensive4
- You don't really own your messages4
- Too many notifications by default3