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If it is the first time using BlueStacks Android emulator you simply must connect your Google account with the emulator. Tango - Live Video Broadcast. Get notifications in the right channel before important events, for new form responses, or when new tickets come in from your ticketing app. Discord is a real outlier. It was originally built with gamers in mind, and these days is marketed more broadly to online communities—not companies. There aren't a lot of business-specific features, and integrations are largely bots built by third parties.
But Discord can work for business chat for one key reason: excellent always-on audio. Discord offers text channels, similar to those seen in other team chat apps.
You can add as many as you want, although there are no threads to break down conversations further. The highlight here is the voice channels, which are always-on phone calls where you can talk to anyone on your team. You can keep your mic off, then push a key to start talking whenever you want to jump in. It's designed for gaming, with an overlay view that shows voice channels on the side of your games. But it's just as handy to talk to colleagues while working remotely in a shared Google Doc.
There's also the option of video chats, if you want to see your teammates face-to-face, but we think the audio chats are the real highlight here. Again, this app is an outlier in this list, but it's almost entirely free—the features behind the paywall are basically irrelevant to a business use case. Discord also offers some of the best audio quality on the market, and this feature alone makes it worth a look if talking out loud is how you get work done.
Discord becomes even more suited for business when you connect it to your favorite apps through Zapier. Pull Twitter activity into a Discord channel, automatically share new content from your knowledge base app with a channel, and more. Some conversations are too important to host on a third-party server, which is where Mattermost comes in.
This app is open source, meaning you can download and install it on your company's own servers. For some businesses, this is absolutely essential. Mattermost is the most feature-complete self-hosted app we found. Conversations are divided into channels, similar to other services. Threads are offered, though every post in a thread is also posted to the main channel, which could get a little messy. The search functionality is feature complete, allowing you to filter by user, channel, and date.
Video and audio chat are handled by third-party services, some of which you can install on your company's servers and integrate directly in the user interface.
Mattermost is the closest thing you can get to running Slack on your own servers. The interface looks similar, the keyboard shortcuts are basically the same, and there are even emoji reactions. If self-hosting is a must, check out Mattermost first. You can use Zapier and Mattermost together to get reminders for calendar events, track tickets from your customer support app, or see new messages from your social media profiles, and more—all without leaving Mattermost.
Mattermost Pricing: Free if you download the open-source version and install it on your own server. Looking for more open source, self hosted options? Chat and Zulip are both worth looking into, if not as feature-complete as Mattermost. This article was originally published in April by Matthew Guay.
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