Group Messaging

Group Discussion Live Chat - mainly for team or large groups. For family/friends, see Group Chat

Should support both Mobile and LapTop/DeskTop users.

"room" oriented options

IRC is the Open Standards player. Most people seem to rely on freenode for hosting IRC.
slack.com
Matrix.org
Mattermost
MicrosoftTeams
NextCloud/talk
Discord

One challenge in terms of using this as Collaboration Ware is that these don't give Threaded Discussion (or it's weak, like 1-level like Slack), which can result in a mess, esp as number of concurrent users increases (beyond 2).

Beluga, Group Me 2011-01-15-Beluga Group Messaging

Kik 2011-03-08-UsvKikMessaging

Android

2013-05-01-Android Group Messaging Broken
Google Hangouts (also works with IOS) 2013-05-23-GoogleIntegratingMessagingUnderHangoutsReducingXmppFederation

IMessage

Holocene?

Edited: 2025-07-30 20:10:54.063985 | Tweet this! | Search Twitter for discussion

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