Sooo.. last release of any hipchat client has been in december 2016? Half a year without any real progress usually means that a company has abandoned a product and moved all development ressources somewhere else.
Does anyone know of any statement as to why this happened? Did atlassian give up on trying to compete with slack?
Like I'm still waiting for architectural fixes like using same emaila dress on multiple groups or even a simple fix of allowing to be logged into multiple groups at once on windows client..
About to purchase many users, considering slack as an option, this is not helping the case for hipchat... at all.
Speaking from experience, if money is not the restraint; Slack has a much healthier feature stack. I love Atlassian products, but this one just isn't seeing the love it needs to compete with Slack.
It's not only that no more nice features are being developed, they also don't fix the obvious bigger design flaws in their product.
Best answers I can give (as an Atlassian fan-boy) is that
a) the extensibility of HC is way ahead. But even with my fan-boy hat on, I can't say that anyone is actually doing much that is useful with it, or that 99.999% of the customer base knows or cares
b) it has better integration with the rest of the Atlassian stack
Um. That's it.
I understand new clients are on the way, but I've no idea if they might help it compete.
@Nic Brough -Adaptavist-where did you hear about new clients? The only thing I have seen another user's screenshot showing an error on the 4.30 web client (which was quickly rolled back to 4.29 to resolve) . Other than that the latest tweets are saying there is no active client development and the job boards were recently showing recruiting for key hipchat development positons (note: I have no idea how big their team is so maybe they are not as lacking on resources as it appears)
Well, we are a rather traditional german industry company, so we usually still stay away from american-hosted SAAS offerings like Slack. So hipchat definately has the on-premise option as a plus for us.
Integrations that are available for hipchat are fine, I don't consider them as a weak point of hipchat atm.
Clients and architecture are, though.
I'd also be interested in knowing where @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-heard about new client announcements?
I got it from casual conversations at Barcelona summit - I was actually asking about support for multiple accounts on the existing clients (Mac client does it, Linux and Android do not). The suggestion was to wait a bit as new or re-vamped clients were planned, but I was not able to get any timing out, as usual.
I guess here we go, new client: https://www.stride.com
I don't like this kind of communications politics, but whatever. Lets hope they also fixed the architectural flaws and make it available to work with data center on-premise option soonish.
I asked about on-premise at the Stride booth at Summit, and was told that it's not in the product roadmap to make a self-hosted version, but that the cloud-based version of Stride will be able to integrate with your on-prem products.
Yeah, I figured. I'm hoping that the also announced new hipchat (on-premise) clients have at least the same base as the stride client, not just a gloss-over for design.
I also doubt that it will ever achieve feature parity with stride, so I'm considering waiting until stride has matured and then move over to their cloud platform.
@StefanS - honestly, I don't know what they announced regarding HipChat. We don't currently use it; we're looking at Stride as a replacement for Skype + Webex.
@Esther Strom They made a blog post about their ongoing commitment to hipchat data center and new clients for that: https://www.atlassian.com/blog/hipchat/hipchat-data-center-performance-at-scale
The images showing the new clients in that blog post look suspiciously like gloss-over only though.
Stride is not a new client for Hipchat, it's a replacement for Hipchat Cloud. Hipchat Cloud will not see any new effort for new features, and eventually go away when enough people have moved to Stride.
Stride will not be coming to Server, it will be Cloud only.
Hipchat Server and Data Centre are being re-engineered a bit and will continue to have features added, as they'll be the non-Cloud offering for chat in the long run.