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RocketChat
Rocket.Chat
TypeScript2015–2026
RocketChat / Rocket.Chat
Rocket.Chat
The Secure CommsOS™ for mission-critical operations
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 1 | 4 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 1 | 5 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What Hacker News says
3 sourcesAMamq·May 29, 2016
In Gchat Was the Future of Messaging, but Google Didn’t KnowIn essence once a grain for rocket.chat is set up, what non-ephemeral url should be used for users to connect from their rocket chat client (either desktop or mobile)?
I tried the grain's url, the "share with others" url, etc...But none work via rocket chat's clients. I did find the following discussion: https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/1352
...Again, I'm just not understanding what url i can share for my family to use - via for example mobile device - to connect/chat on this grain (whether i kill my browser sessions or not).
Sorry i didn't mean to make this almost a support inquiry. Maybe a simple note displayed upon creation of the grain like the following would help: "Hey, you just created a rocket chat grain, if your users are going to connect using one of rocket chat's clients, they need to enter this following url:
Read the rest
xyz12300d64bnfnskdfnfgi3o45titj34.oasis.sandostorm.io/whatever/rocketchat/whatever/2342342r". And you can imagine if you look at your "abandon logs"; how many other users try your service, can't figure out how to connect to it for a particular app (again we're talking typical, non-techie users), and then never come back? Again, my comments are coming from a fan of yours. ;-)
Definitely a needed sort of product; my congratulations to the team.
A non-Slack alternative: I was looking for this feature, but wanted to move my company away from Slack to one of the free chat platforms like Rocket.Chat, Mattermost, Zulip, etc. So I researched, and found that only Rocket.Chat has its own version of this live-chat feature (though no doubt much less mature). I'm looking forward to switching over to Rocket.Chat soon (I have no affiliation with them).
https://rocket.chat/
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/519
Hope this helps folks out there looking for live-chat integration options. It's pretty cool to be able to chat with potential users directly from company chat!
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