Chatlio Reviews

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1. jorge

   | CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA | about 4 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Chatlio mentions (3)

• Slack and customer inquiries.

  Chatlio offers this functionality pretty well from what I've seen. A workspace in my org uses them to respond to people who ask questions through their site's chat function. Source: about 2 years ago

• I built chatlike.xyz - live chat with your web visitors via Discord

  Wow, awesome advice. Yeah, you're right. I will have to reconsider some stuff. I was initially modeling the pricing based on Chatlio. But I think you're right in a lot of ways. Source: over 2 years ago

• Show HN: Papercups – open-source alternative to Intercom

  Yes. https://chatlio.com/ Creates a short-lived channel per chat. It works well in terms of sharing responsibilities with a team and allowing people to jump in easily. I did feel a bit of unease with having customers in the same place as our "private" conversations. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

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