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Team chat

Team chat with direct messages, group rooms and chat history. Whiteboards, polls and date finding work inside a room.

Element with the room Drift open: a conversation between four people with a PDF attachment and a thread of three replies.
Element, connected to a Synapse server

Screenshots are taken from the apps running on a test server, with made-up data.

What stays in your control

  • Element is the chat app and Synapse is the server that stores your messages. Both run on servers you control.

  • They use Matrix, an open protocol with a public specification.

  • Nordeck widgets add whiteboards, polls and date finding inside a room.

Open-source apps behind it

  • Element
  • Synapse
  • Nordeck widgets

Alternative to

Microsoft Teams chat; Slack

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