HipChat is a great app for team collaboration
June 29, 2016
HipChat is a great app for team collaboration
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with HipChat
We use it to communicate across multiple teams. It's a great tool to start and maintain discussions on a specific topic, about a group, or anything else. We are using it on a group that has three distinct teams on it, with each team having some overlap with the others, but not complete. We're also all roughly in the same area, so HipChat allows us to connect with other team members to discuss similar project work we might be doing, but also to avoid annoying the rest of the office.
- Group chat is nice - it's persistent and allows others to jump in on the conversation as needed
- Private groups are a good feature since we can set up groups limited to a specific set of people, this helps avoid people jumping in on a conversation and pushing it in a direction we don't want to go
- Emoticons. Enough said.
- The mobile app needs to provide better notification clarify - currently if there's a notification badge on the app, when you open it up there's no indicator of what room or user the notification is tied to
- Make emoticons a bit bitter, and allow easier adding of them via the desktop or mobile app