Oh Mircosfot's strategy is the weirdest: OCS, Lync, Skype, Skype for Business, Teams, Yammer... People are just lost.
Nayego is trying to hard build a HipChat-like client+server that is open source and based on XMPP.
https://nayego.net/ you can subscribe if you want to see a preview.
We'll be trying to fix that by offering the XMPP "Team Chat" client that is much needed... https://nayego.net/ you can subscribe if you want to see the preview.
Suggestion: Have a tour of the product that doesn't require a signup. If I don't want to give you my email address, I'm left to use my imagination based on your description.
Maybe you want to see the preview of our work in progress? https://nayego.net/ Open Source, real Open Standards, mature technology, decentralised/federated/distributed, and a great UX.
Fit for orgs with external partners, providers, customers, freelances, remote and home office workers...
I might have missed something, but your website doesn't provide much information, and I've been unable to find any elsewhere (only an empty GitHub repository).
edit: btw, the number of comments you've made in this thread to “sell” your solution is… abusive?
So I observe that lots of team chat users seem lost and don't what to do anymore.
The problem with alternative Open Source team chats attempts is that they are just another silo, or walled garden. Instances do not talk to each other. A private island cannot join continent. Even within the same organisations plenty of incompatible team chats are used competitively, fragmenting the workforces.
We propose to fix all that with Nayego: https://nayego.net/ Nayego is an open source team chat under development, that has a world-class UX, and that is federated/decentralised/federated like email.
Nayego wishes to address the organisations that are open and extended, where teams are working together with other internal teams, and with partners, customers, providers, but also freelancers, and remote and home office workers.
Nayego is and will remain free/open source and open standard (XMPP, SIP, WebRTC). If you wish to register to the preview, please go to: https://nayego.net/ We will do our best.
You have several potential customers here telling you what they expect to see on a landing page when considering your product. If you’re this stubborn about listening to non-customers who are telling you exactly how to get them into your sales funnel, it gives the impression you would care less about their needs and suggestions regarding the product itself once they become customers.
Listen to your ideal customers, then regurgitate it back to them. If screenshots are not enough, how about a video? Discuss the pain points you’re solving, and show how you solve them. Maybe embed a chat session on the page and let me chat with a bot to feel why it’s better, but do something so I take your product seriously.
No, but you can get a good idea of it. If your UX is as "world class" as you claim then I would expect you'd want to show it off as a main selling point.
Giving me nothing but a bunch of marketing fluff on the home page makes me immediately lose interest.
Your landing page takes five hundred years to load.
If you cannot do well such a simple thing as landing page, how do you have any courage to promote your actual product, which is much, much more complex than a single page?
If anything, all your marketing pamphlets are now working against you, not increasing confidence in your product, but rather decreasing it.
Perhaps you should do your best first, then hijack threads with shameful self-promotion?
It is worse, actually, because it uses GTK, and is only available on Linux and Windows (not macOS, although there have been attempts).
Most of the "big names" who provide modern and contemporary desktop IM apps deliver on the 3 platforms (Linux, macOS, and Windows), and use mostly web "technologies" (sometimes "pure browser", and sometimes with electron-like desktop "packaging")... so as a consequence, it is very native, indeed, but it is a generally consistent and continuous UX (user experience) between mobile/tablet and desktop/laptop.
Nayego is an open source and open standard team chat, that is federated/distributed/decentralised.