Editing Software Alternatives (section)

== Messaging ==
=== Microsoft Teams ===
'''Please consider using a different service for your club.''' Microsoft Teams has many disadvantages including slow messaging, no typing indicators in groups, no emoji reactions, annoying reaction/emoji animations (no way to disable them), inability to share multiple screens at once, duplicated notifications, unreliable notifications (ouch!), barely any customizability (for notification sounds, themes, etc.).

These are free (and open-source) alternatives with generous resources available! Some 'non-commercial' ones are OK since clubs at Rose are a valid non-commercial use!

Discord has some of these issues as well, and is aggressive against customizability (and bans people for violating their stringent ToS). And, other services can 'just work' like Discord too, so what are you waiting for!

==== Easy Server Discovery ====
(easy to find/search for other servers, like subreddits)

* Matrix (Use the element.io servers for clubs, since they are the main server that Matrix groups use)

* Telegram (harder to find/search for other servers, find other servers by Google searching) [phone number required]

==== More Similar to Slack ====
(has channels, no built-in functions for discovery of other servers)

* IRC (very simple, text-based)

* Zulip (has free cloud version) (iOS app might not be the best quality, untested)

* Mattermost [required to pay for cloud version]

* Mumble (Low-latency voice chat and text chat)

=== Voice/Video Chat ===

* Jitsi Meet ([https://meet.jit.si], [https://meet.jit.si/RHLUG-Virtual-Meeting Our meeting room], [https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron#features end-to-end encryption in beta])
** Also includes meeting recording, livestreaming, iOS call integration, and many more features!

* [https://bigbluebutton.org/ BigBlueButton]
* Mumble (Low-latency voice chat and text chat)
* [https://nextcloud.com/talk/ Nextcloud Talk]
* Telegram video calls (end-to-end encrypted, but closed-source backend)