Tick tock HipChat users — it’s time to move to the future-proof alternative
Dear HipChat and Stride users,
You only have a few weeks left to find a new home! But fear not, Riot is here, and moving across to one of our hosted Modular.im chat servers is easy with our dedicated HipChat migration tool.
In the end, Atlassian switching off its chat apps might be the best thing that’s happened to you, making switching to a future-proof alternative a no brainer.
So why is Riot the future-proof choice?
Riot is built on the Matrix open standard. We want you to use Riot because it’s great, not because it’s the only option — with Matrix you are free to connect with whichever Matrix client app you like: there’s no app lock-in.
Riot provides privacy and data ownership — features you should expect from every modern communication system. Thanks to Matrix, Riot supports full end-to-end encryption, so only the participants in a discussion can read it.
Also thanks to Matrix, you have the freedom to choose who hosts your data for you: do you want to run your own server? You can. Do you want to find a trusted service provider? You can too, and we can even suggest a good one: Modular.im 😉. You’re not really sure? Well, just pick one! It will be easy to migrate over later as your data is already in Matrix: there’s no vendor lock-in.
Let’s not forget the Matrix ecosystem is openly federated — migrate to Riot and you won’t be locked into your own community (unless you want to be), embrace federation and you will be able to reach any of the other millions of Matrix users as well as users from other platforms like Slack, IRC or XMPP.
And finally, because Riot is open source, it will live forever, and because Matrix is an open standard, it fosters the development of new integrations which are immediately available from any Matrix app. Find out about the integrations that are available for free right now, with much, much more to come.
So what are you waiting for? Go and find the migrator at https://modular.im/hipchat; in a few clicks you will migrate your HipChat/Stride history into Matrix, via a hosted homeserver at Modular.im.
For full details, check out the Modular blog — you don’t have to follow the rest of the herd, break free!
The Riot team
