Have you tried Slack instead of Hipchat? My old gig used HipChat, and my new one uses Slack, and I find the difference between the two to be night and day.
I did try both and picked HipChat (though I now have a few regrets). Slack's lack of native Windows client was a real bummer and, frankly, I found the Slack interface unnecessarily confusing.
I think they need a "simple" mode or the ability to turn some features off by default.
That said, Slack's integration with 3rd party services like Github is just straight up better than HipChat. And after using it for a while there are a couple of small (fixable!) things about HipChat that are really irritating.
> I did try both and picked HipChat (though I now have a few regrets). Slack's lack of native Windows client was a real bummer and, frankly, I found the Slack interface unnecessarily confusing. I think they need a "simple" mode or the ability to turn some features off by default.
I think its personal preference, but I can see that.
> That said, Slack's integration with 3rd party services like Github is just straight up better than HipChat. And after using it for a while there are a couple of small (fixable!) things about HipChat that are really irritating.
For sure, this is all just my opinion. Did they ever come out with a real Windows client, thought? That was an annoyance for me, I imagine it would be a dealbreaker for some enterprises.
That said, Slack's integration with 3rd party services like Github is just straight up better than HipChat. And after using it for a while there are a couple of small (fixable!) things about HipChat that are really irritating.