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Spectrum Chat

A newly open sourced self hosted Slack like alternative for building persistent chat communities Created by Spectrum

Freemium $ $ $ Open Source
Web
Self-Hosted
Software as a Service (SaaS)

It is difficult to grow, manage and measure the impact of online communities. Community owners need modern, chat-based communities but are running into scaling issues when their community grows beyond a few hundred members. It becomes hard to keep track of who's who, know what conversations are happening, and ensure that the community is staying healthy and productive.

Spectrum aims to be the best platform to build any kind of community online by combining the best of web 2.0 forums and real-time chat apps. With best-in-class moderation tooling, a single platform for all your communities, threaded conversations by default, community health monitoring (and much more to come), we think that we will be able to help more people start and grow the best online communities.... More Info »

Links to official Spectrum Chat sites

Official Website Twitter GitHub

Pricing Information

Subscription that costs between $10 and $100. Price may vary depending on commitment and so on.

Features

Channels Chat Group chat Group collaboration Live Chat Support for @mentions Real time collaboration Team Collaboration Team work Add a feature

Categories

Office & Productivity Social & Communications

Tags

chat-clients chat-rooms collaboration-software

Spectrum Chat was added by POX in Apr 2018 and the latest update was made in Jun 2019. The list of alternatives was updated Sep 2019. It's possible to update the information on Spectrum Chat or report it as discontinued, duplicated or spam.

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