I work with a small manufacturer team scattered around the world, and Skype has been the glue since it was released.
Now Skype is dead (in a month) and I have the opportunity to move things in a secure and non-American direction, so I will try and introduce team members to our shiny new matrix homeserver hosted in Europe.
I’ll be locking it down without defederating, as it’s a teamchat only server. Any advice?
Well it is a matrix synapse server that runs the element web app, and I will make sure everyone also uses the element device apps as well, mainly for consistency.
So you have been using Matrix! Element is just a matrix front-end.
Most of our team is nontechnical so Element.app seems like a good skype replacement from an interface point of view. We also tried Zulip, rocket.chat, and Discord. Zulip was the second choice. I just have to ensure they don’t wander off into federated servers by accident, or invite anyone else.
I work with a small manufacturer team scattered around the world, and Skype has been the glue since it was released.
Now Skype is dead (in a month) and I have the opportunity to move things in a secure and non-American direction, so I will try and introduce team members to our shiny new matrix homeserver hosted in Europe.
I’ll be locking it down without defederating, as it’s a teamchat only server. Any advice?
I switched my team to Element, it’s really good for us, and almost identical to Skype minus the bullshit so the transition has been easy.
I haven’t used matrix. How does it compare to Skype’s core functionality?
Well it is a matrix synapse server that runs the element web app, and I will make sure everyone also uses the element device apps as well, mainly for consistency.
So you have been using Matrix! Element is just a matrix front-end.
Most of our team is nontechnical so Element.app seems like a good skype replacement from an interface point of view. We also tried Zulip, rocket.chat, and Discord. Zulip was the second choice. I just have to ensure they don’t wander off into federated servers by accident, or invite anyone else.