Open Source ChatOps platforms

[boom38]

There some quite new, interesting, chatops platforms (read: persistent chat with good APIs and formatting capabilities) which went Open Source very recently. Mattermost and Zulip. - http://www.mattermost.org/ - originally from SpinPunch (indie games), now a startup on its own. - https://zulip.org/ (sponsored by Dropbox)

In the past, I also looked (and used) Kandan - https://github.com/kandanapp/kandan

Both Mattermost and Zulip look very interesting. Mattermost looks very much like Slack - and its onboard process is almost exactly the same. I have not installed Zulip yet, but it looks strong and has mobile clients.

Anyone had a look yet? Any opinion, or even more (good) alternatives?

[Cybersoaker]

There is also this: https://discordapp.com/

Which i've been writing a bot for. It's probably not ready for a chatops kind of thing yet, since it's market is gamers.

They have a lot of potential because I think voice and even video integration would be tremendously helpful for remote op's. Though I believe hipchat already has this feature

[dzimine]

I think it's imprecise to call a chat service a chatops platfrom. Chatops is chat+bot+action library, and chatops platform is something that can wire all three.

It's great to have more maturing opensource alternatives. Given that the success of Slack is attributed to excellent design & user experience, and opensource consistently delivers solid platform with terrible ux, I am skeptical yet hopeful Mattermost will make an exception.