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\"franz\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Franz<\/a> is a free messaging app which currently supports\u00a0Slack<\/a>, WhatsApp<\/a>, WeChat<\/a>, HipChat<\/a>, Facebook Messenger<\/a>, Telegram<\/a>, Google Hangouts<\/a>, GroupMe<\/a>, Skype<\/a> and many more. \u00a0Download is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Franz is a free messaging app which currently supports\u00a0Slack, WhatsApp, WeChat, HipChat, Facebook Messenger, Telegram, Google Hangouts, GroupMe, Skype and many more. \u00a0Download is available for Mac, Windows, and Linux.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Franz - free cross-service messaging app #IM","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[2271,3180,3397,2295,1035,3415,3290],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-26099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-facebook","tag-google-hangouts","tag-hipchat","tag-instant-messaging","tag-skype","tag-slack","tag-whatsapp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28469,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/04\/08\/botman-framework-agnostic-php-library-to-build-chat-bots\/","url_meta":{"origin":26099,"position":0},"title":"Botman – framework agnostic PHP library to build chat bots","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 8, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Botman is a framework agnostic library for building your own chat bots in PHP.\u00a0 With the same chat bot logic you can connect to a variety of chat services like HipChat, Slack, Telegram, Facebook Messenger, Google Hangouts and a variety of others (just search for \"botman\/driver\" on Packagist).\u00a0 You can\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/botman-500x116.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":28831,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/01\/hipchat-to-slack-migration\/","url_meta":{"origin":26099,"position":1},"title":"HipChat to Slack migration","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 1, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Back in July, Slack acquired Hipchat with the intent of migrating all the users and shutting down the service.\u00a0 For us at work, these were very sad news.\u00a0 We've been using HipChat for years, and relied on it heavily.\u00a0 We have also evaluated Slack in its early days and didn't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/hipchat-slack-500x94.gif?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":26017,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/04\/13\/rocket-chat-the-ultimate-self-hosted-open-source-chat-platform\/","url_meta":{"origin":26099,"position":2},"title":"Rocket.Chat – the ultimate self-hosted open source chat platform","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 13, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Chat is becoming more and more important for team communication and collaboration (what is ChatOps?). \u00a0Old school applications like Skype are being replaced with modern, web-based chat platforms, that provide group\/room and one-on-one chats, file uploads, screen sharing, voice and video communications, API integration and more. \u00a0There are plenty of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"rocket.chat","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/rocket.chat_-500x235.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":23729,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/03\/19\/hipchat-releases-web-interface-world\/","url_meta":{"origin":26099,"position":3},"title":"HipChat releases the new web interface to the world","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"March 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"HipChat - 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