+1, also related to some of the admin options in other suggestions... I'd vote for a full audit mode where everything can be downloaded including 1-to-1 chats private and public channels... Will help compliance requirements down the line

It would be great to also have full compliance exports... Some customers as well as some countries' laws will require it... (standard disclaimer to users fully understandable and normal IMO)...

I will have to chime in here... I have a fair amount of knowledge on some of the technologies involved in voice/video calling, particularly in web/mobile environments and there is a good reason Slack acquired a company that had years of experience in the field and/or related technologies.

From a product background for over 15yrs I'd strongly advise against thinning out your efforts in this way... Maybe one day, but now I'd focus on integrations. I'll vote for "the best" hangouts integration around, and then something else, and so forth... Similar to what slack did (although I'd try and integrate in a nicer way, for example)...

Appear.in is a nice and quick one, but lacks many features needed by companies... I have used Zoom extensively and am now using hangouts more as we are migrating to a GApps ecosystem... Worse personal experience was with skype, but it varies... My vote is 1 & 2... steer clear of 3, and I wont comment on 4 since I havent used it in ages...

An "easy" integration layer (such as something other developers can contribute as plugins for example) will much help Ryver... If you consider that Slack has a large number of working integrations, adding an option for "compatible" webhooks, for example, could also be a good strategy... in the end, the user experience is what counts, not who "initially used" a certain format (in rgds to supporting the same formats as slack or hipchat or other programs)...

Zapier also opens lots of doors with a single integration effort, but thats more general (although it could perhaps be used with some voice/video apps...)

Please dont forget delete in this.... I have a private channel that is "stuck" as the user is deactivated and I cant delete it as I'm not creator...

PS: I think the above scenario may be a bug.... I now have no way of deleting that channel... its stuck in my acct "forever"?...

If I could upvote just these admin features I'd be golden :p Waiting anxiously for a permission of "Who can create public channels: [Anyone/Users/Admins]" "Who can create private channels: [Anyone/Users/Admins]" (this one most important for us, and "Who can invite to a channel: [Anyone/Owner&Admins]"

I hope these come... I even did a trial import from slack... very neat (despite the private channels issue which I'm not sure how we'd handle it yet...)

Agreed. There should also be some considerations as to whether a "Super admin" should exist (one who can delete/edit/access any private group, for example)...

I have come into a situation where I (as the team owner) cannot delete a private channel created by another user, even after deactivating that user...