Yandex has stopped developing Messenger and moved its features into Telemost. Here's what that means for companies, which team chat apps make a good replacement and how to move your team without the stress.
Pachca's biggest updates from June to August 2026, plus what's coming this fall.
How an insurance company with 700+ employees replaced its self-hosted system with Pachca running as hybrid on-premise (BYOK)
How an amoCRM integrator left Discord and moved its team to Pachca in a day. An IT company's migration to a team chat app
A look at MTS Link alternatives for work chats and team communication: we compare features, pricing and deployment options.
We compared 10 popular team chat and messaging apps on how ready they are to work with AI agents: from context and threads to CLIs, MCP and dedicated agent tools.
How automation works in n8n (nodes, workflows, templates, self-hosted and cloud), plus ten use cases that connect n8n to your team chat app.
What an internal communication system includes, which channels a company needs, who owns them and how to tell whether it's all working.
How a team chat app differs from Telegram and WhatsApp, what jobs it does and which criteria to compare options by. A practical guide from the Pachca team
Your own agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex) with access to your conversations, and a shared bot your colleagues @mention in threads. What to give each one, how they work in the same discussion and what to tell your security team when agents start multiplying
We look at alternatives to VK Teams and VK WorkSpace for team chats and work communication, comparing features, pricing and deployment options.
Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or your own agent: three terminal commands, and your agent reads your chats, reports back in threads and creates tasks on your behalf
The biggest AI news every morning, from 900+ sources
How an AI agent differs from a chatbot, why it works in threads and what busywork it takes off your team's plate, based on our experience with Kai, the agent we run in Pachca
How a chain of 900+ restaurants chose Pachca out of 15 Russian team chat apps
We look at alternatives to Yandex Messenger for team chats and work communication, comparing features, pricing and deployment options.
A survey of 798 employees: 88% use AI at work, but only one in four say their company has rolled it out officially, with tools and rules
We break down alternatives to Kontur.Talk for team chats and work communication, comparing features, pricing and deployment options.
How the leading sports media outlet on the Russian internet moved to Pachca
We break down the alternatives to Compass for team chats and work communication, comparing features, pricing and deployment options.
The international automation platform's catalog now has four Russian services: Bitrix24, Unisender, Tilda and Pachca, the first team chat app from Russia
A look at eXpress alternatives for team chats and work communication: we compare features, pricing and deployment options.
A BYOK integration: the encryption keys for messages, files and the search index are stored in Stronghold on the company's own servers
How a flower and gift marketplace moved 500+ employees to Pachca and built an ecosystem of 50+ automations
A look at Loop alternatives for work chats and team communication: we compare features, pricing and deployment options.
Over the weekend of March 14–15, company sign-ups grew roughly fivefold amid Telegram outages
Docs, ready-made integrations and code samples. Agents work inside threads and can bring in the right employees thanks to cross-chat threads
The team chat app is officially certified to run on the Russian operating system RED OS and is now listed in the RED SOFT technology partner registry
A look at the architecture of the AI agent in Pachca: threads as the foundation for AI work, prompts, tools and real automation use cases for business and IT teams
How to build a bot that collects vacation requests automatically with n8n and Pachca forms
We tested 16 popular tools for work and team communication, from Russian team chat apps to alternatives to Slack, Teams and Telegram. We pulled everything into a comparison table that rates them on 100+ criteria: video calls, threads, bots, API, security and integrations. 🔍
We compare the best video conferencing apps and services: selection criteria, a checklist and Russian alternatives to Zoom
The team chat app has been certified for Astra Linux and joined the Ready for Astra partner program in the communication software category
The new architecture supports up to 1,000 participants at once, and every call automatically gets a meeting chat that stays after the call ends
How Right line, a major banking software developer, adopted Pachca after leaving Slack
How AppEvent moved to Pachca in 3 days after Discord was blocked. A fast migration story from an IT company
How to pick a new service in a week, keep every workflow and make conversations better organized
How a 520+ person company took a careful look at the market after Slack and chose Pachca
How to get rid of 200 work chats in Telegram and bring order to team communication
How Poison Drop, the country's leading jewelry department store, moved from Slack to Pachca
How the 100-year-old newspaper Vechernyaya Moskva chose Pachca. A newsroom's move from Discord to a team chat app
We tested 13 platforms and gathered feedback from 1,500+ companies. Russian and international team chat apps for work, with a 2025 comparison table.
How a B2B financial accounting service sped up team communication with Pachca
How Karpov.courses moved 90,000+ students to Pachca in 2 weeks. A story of rolling out a team chat app at a large EdTech company
How RB.RU, a media platform, brought 50+ employees together in Pachca. A story of moving off Telegram and adopting cross-chat threads
How Rikor, Russia's largest electronics manufacturer, uses the Pachca team chat app
Moving to Pachca after Slack was blocked and a stint on an open source team chat app
How Diskar, a developer of platforms for retail chains, migrated from Mattermost to Pachca. A story about choosing a team chat app
How one of Russia's largest streaming services moved 1,000+ employees to Pachca
Pachca's features for business: work chats, video calls, security and team management
How Gorbilet, a popular ticket booking service, organized teamwork in Pachca
How major BNPL service Mokka rolled out Pachca and got its team up and running in half a day
How DIY marketplace INMYROOM rolled out Pachca and moved 110 employees over. A story of migrating from Mattermost to a team chat app
How the team at Sport24, a top 5 sports media outlet, chose Pachca and moved its history over from Slack
The best Russian messaging apps with no blocking risk, for teams and businesses
Companies can manage their own encryption keys through Yandex KMS, Cloud.ru KMS or HashiCorp Vault
How Lindaily, Russia's largest B2B textile sharing service, moved from MS Teams to Pachca. A migration story of 420+ employees
How the Unisender team moved from Slack to Pachca and kept all their processes and chat history
Connect a chatbot that automates HR tasks
How to set up an Unfurl bot that automatically creates informative link previews in Pachca
How to set up Welcome Bot to onboard new employees automatically in your team chat app
How 100points moved 400 employees from Telegram to Pachca. An education company's migration story, with threads
How the remote team behind the largest automation platform moved to Pachca
How a leading SaaS provider for the hospitality industry moved to Pachca
A fast move from Discord and a new way to organize work communication
How an education company moved off Telegram and kept every workflow intact
How to choose a team chat app for an IT company with 500+ employees when your team loved Slack
How JVO moved 200 employees from Telegram to Pachca in 2 weeks. A story about migrating a fast-growing IT team and automating workflows through the API
How one of the largest marketplaces moved 5,000+ employees to Pachca
How MIPT staff moved to the Pachca team chat app after Slack blocked them
How the digital agency Palindrome moved from Telegram to Pachca. A story about structuring communication and rolling out cross-chat threads for 170 employees
How Synchronize moved from Slack to Pachca after almost 10 years and kept every process intact
How an online education group moved 560+ employees to Pachca from a Mattermost-based team chat app
How one of the largest EdTech services moved learning for 30,000+ students to Pachca. A customer story of migrating from Slack to a team chat app
Step-by-step guide to setting up the Pingera integration with Pachca to get outage notifications
Step-by-step guide to integrating Yandex Tracker with Pachca to get task notifications
How to integrate Kaiten with Pachca and get notifications from your task tracker
Best practices for work communication
How do you move all your Slack conversations to Pachca yourself? The Assist story
A detailed guide to every way you can connect your work tools to the Pachca team chat app
Why you should connect your PPC services to Pachca
Bulk messaging use cases, with examples from education
Another way to put our API to work
A setup guide, with education as an example
How to survey employees or students faster with the Pachca API
What to replace Skype with: Russian alternatives with video calls for work and business
How to collect, analyze and use feedback to build a successful product
What threads are and why they're the most important tool for working in a team chat app.
Boost your net profit with Russian software
A Pachca × Habr Career integration that sends you automatic notifications about new job applications
Everything we added to Pachca in 2024
How to integrate Jira with Pachca
Financial tracking in your team chat app
Why you should connect your email marketing service to your team chat app
How our customers use guest roles in Pachca
Cross-chat threads help cross-functional teams communicate better. Here's how to speed up work across departments and cut down on forwarding
A step-by-step guide to a full chat export
A look at tasks, plus a little secret 🤫
Connect your GitHub repository, your team's task tracker and Pachca
A ready-made API integration: all that's left is to run it
What companies are choosing in 2024: hands-on platform testing and reviews from organizations of every size.
Which chats to create, how to name them and how to structure them
What Pachca offers education organizations
How to save your data before you leave Slack
How to share feedback and what happens to it next
Creative ways to use emoji in workplace communication
Automate how mentors get notified when students take academic leave or request a refund
How to integrate survey tools with Pachca
A look at our latest updates
Here's what we've shipped so far in 2023 and what's coming next
How to build an effective communication environment in the Pachca team chat app
How to send holiday greetings to all your colleagues at once