Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by ankitkumar98 » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 5:21 PM UTC

Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack
breakoutstartups.substack.com

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Post by j88439h84 » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:43 PM UTC

Riot seems like a good option these days.

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Post by newsat13 » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:45 PM UTC

When I checked mattermost a year ago, the mattermost opensource edition had no basic permissions/access control. Any user could archive any channel. I have seen many teams fall into this "trap" only to find this basic restriction later. We since moved to Rocket.Chat. Is this still the case?

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Post by mikece » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:50 PM UTC

I like that Mattermost is written in Go and can deploy on-prem with Docker. Those are two huge points for MM over Slack IMO.

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Post by sinnombre » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:52 PM UTC

What about zulip? They seem to fare well in terms of features against slack and mattermost.

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Post by matusnovak » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:54 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #4

I like that Mattermost is written in Go and can deploy on-prem with Docker. Those are two huge points for MM over Slack IMO.

For anyone looking to give it a try, here is a Dockerized version of Mattermost: https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-docker

Very straightforward and easy to set up.

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Post by yulaow » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

My team uses it since a year, it works flawlessly for what we need.

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Post by mikece » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 6:55 PM UTC

The article talks about Hipchat as a competitor but HipChat was shut down by Atlassian and HipChat users were strongly encouraged to adopt Slack: https://www.atlassian.com/partnerships/slack

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Post by slykar » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 7:00 PM UTC

sinnombre wrote: post #5

What about zulip? They seem to fare well in terms of features against slack and mattermost.

I love Zulip but the concept of topics is repelant for (lazy?) users.

When you chat on a channel (Slack, Mattermost) and people start fragmenting the discussion into several topics that interlace... Ugh! I yet have to meet people that would at last utilize Threads.

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Post by Freak_NL » Tue, Dec 17, 2019, 7:05 PM UTC

newsat13 wrote: post #3

When I checked mattermost a year ago, the mattermost opensource edition had no basic permissions/access control. Any user could archive any channel. I have seen many teams fall into this "trap" only to find this basic restriction later. We since moved to Rocket.Chat. Is this still the case?

You can create private channels in MatterMost for as long as I can remember.