Free Slack Alternative
Slack is all the rage these days. Twitter is full of excited slackers. VentureBeat says Slack will change the workplace . TechCrunch praises Slack. So does pretty much every other media outlet. HipChat and Flowdock must be losing customers left and right, I imagine. Is there anything out there, that’s better than Slack? I think so. To me, the best Slack alternative is Bitrix24 . Not because it’s free for small teams and has affordable unlimited user plans, but because it offers tools that Slack should be offering. These are: 1. Solo and group videocalls Chat is fine and dandy, but sometimes you want to talk to a person. WebRTC makes video and audio calls from/to PCs and smartphones fairly easy to integrate into your collaboration platform and this is exactly what Bitrix24 did but Slack did not (yet). 2. True file management File sharing is fine. But I expect Dropbox-like fil...