How to move your office to real time IM on ejabberd
Summary
During a pandemic, businesses around the world face the same fundamental problem: how to quickly move office staff to work remotely from home? Of course, you can choose other cloud services, but they come with a common set of problems: Deploying your own IM solution may sound like a weeks-long project for your IT department. Once all users have their accounts, it would be nice if just after logging into their favorite XMPP client (I’ll suggest some apps later on) they could see all their colleagues in the contact list. There are many different IM chat apps (XMPP clients), for many different platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS, Android… You can find a complete list here. There’s a very good IM chat client called Converse that works right in your browser and connects directly to your server.