Rocket.Chat is an open source messaging app built with Meteor. It supports video conferencing, file sharing, voice messages, has a fully-featured API, and more. Rocket.Chat is great for those who prefer to have full control over their communications.
In this tutorial, we will be installing and configuring Rocket.Chat on a fresh Ubuntu Droplet as well as setting up a reverse proxy via Nginx to boost security and make accessing Rocket.Chat much easier. Once we're finished, you'll have a beautiful, functional instance of Rocket.Chat accessible from virtually anywhere.
It’s a shame you didn't to talk to us too. There are a lot of benefits of using Meteor. First, it plans to be DB agnostic, so Postgres support will come in the next version, and many other DBs. So if that was the main reason, it's was a bit short sighted. Also, we have already submitted our Mobile apps to Google Play and Apple Store. Sure the first version is Hybrid, but they work really well, and the native version is on the making. We are also working with a team from the US army to implements the DoD Manual 5200.01V2 so they can use it at government agencies too. On scalability, we are pushing the limits with a deployment that has 40k users for the Federal University in Brazil. Hopefully GitLab will not commit to a single option so early, that would be premature at this point, and maybe we can work together to offer another chat option?