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Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by it33 »

jjeaff wrote: post #14

I have a small team, but about a year ago, we deployed Mattermost on our K8s cluster using their Helm chart and I have been very pleased with the performance and stability. We never looked back at slack. I have not had to fiddle with the configuration at all since deploying it. It just works. And that is also considering that to save costs, I launched it on preemptible instances which go down usually once every 24 ho…

Mattermost CEO here,

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing back--comments like this are super motivating for everyone working on the project,

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by alias_neo »

orliesaurus wrote: post #18
alias_neo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> HipChat was shut down by Atlassian Not entirely accurate. It's was bought by Slack, and then shut down.

Didn't they just buy the userbase? I don't think they bought the technology - they also made a lot of devs redundant after the purchase?

I'm not sure the exact details of the purchase, I just know that a deadline was placed on our HipChat installation at work (it would not be renewed, and only supported until date X).

It seems their ultimate goal was to shut down a competitor, so, with the result being the same, I suppose the specifics matter very little.

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by Krasnol »

antioedipus wrote: post #137

The open-source Mattermost intentionally lacks a couple of pieces of basic functionality to push you to pay, like the ability to stop regular users from deleting channels, and no way to set a reasonable password policy that requires more than 5 characters. Mattermost (and specifically their CEO, who is vigorously replying to messages on this thread, but probably won’t engage with this one) haven’t responded positivel…

It looks like somebody has engaged in those issues over there. Probably because of this comment.

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by it33 »

bubba1236 wrote: post #190
it33 wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mattermost CEO here, if Amazon is open to it, I’d love to see if there is a “Better together” story across AWS, Chime (meetings, voice, video, screen sharing) and Mattermost (developer, Ops and SRE workflows and integrations). We’ve heard the same from different Amazon teams looking to accelerate developer productivity

don't waste ur time they're pushing chime hard at Amazon lol

True, but everywhere else they are pushing Teams hard for general users.

Mattermost is already certified on Aurora, we work with S3, it's available in AWS Marketplace--if there's a dev team at Amazon interested in an open source alternative to Slack that runs natively on AWS infra--potentially connects with Chime for voice/video/meetings/screenshare it's potentially a healthy thing for everyone.

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by it33 »

alias_neo wrote: post #188
robohoe wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What issues did you have with pasting code in it? It supports Markdown so it supports whatever a typical README.md would.

It just didn't always behave and syntax highlighting didn't work at all sometimes; but it may have been that the system as a whole was misconfigured.

Mattermost CEO here, thanks for trying us out!

Would love to squash the bug for you, open to filing an issue?> https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/new

We used to send bug coins just for release candidates, but if you find a bug in production you get one too now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D6FJsdE_aY

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by saagarjha »

sneak wrote: post #152
antioedipus wrote: post #137

The open-source Mattermost intentionally lacks a couple of pieces of basic functionality to push you to pay, like the ability to stop regular users from deleting channels, and no way to set a reasonable password policy that requires more than 5 characters. Mattermost (and specifically their CEO, who is vigorously replying to messages on this thread, but probably won’t engage with this one) haven’t responded positivel…

As I’m reading it, Mattermost (as source) is released under the AGPL, which makes it both legal and ethical (indeed, they have explicitly consented to allow you to distribute modifications) to stub out all the license checking and enable all of the enterprise functionality without any payments, tracking, or phone-home. It seems to me this is the point of free/open source software: anyone can improve it and make it mo…

It is legal and ethical to remove the parts you don’t like, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t pay for it. You’re not required to, but if you find it useful you could consider it a donation.

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by mathnmusic »

antioedipus wrote: post #137

The open-source Mattermost intentionally lacks a couple of pieces of basic functionality to push you to pay, like the ability to stop regular users from deleting channels, and no way to set a reasonable password policy that requires more than 5 characters. Mattermost (and specifically their CEO, who is vigorously replying to messages on this thread, but probably won’t engage with this one) haven’t responded positivel…

If there is enough interest, we at polyglot.network can add those missing functionalities and maintain that fork. We have already done the same for certain other OSS software as enhancing open-source software for paying corporate clients IS our business model.

Re: Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

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Post by saagarjha »

it33 wrote: post #121
sjburt wrote: post #115

The biggest problem with Mattermost is that the mobile client cannot connect to multiple teams. You can add the beta client and connect to a second team, but more than two teams is impossible. This may be a function of living in the Bay Area but I'm on 4 or 5 different Slack groups for various communities. All but my employer would be in great shape to switch to Mattermost but it's just not possible. Some have switch…

Thanks sjburt, Mattermost CEO here. We have 800+ upvotes that agree with you, here a link to the feature proposal forum post and open tickets on this: https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/sugge... Anyone interested in contributing to the work, we’d welcome your help

The ticket you linked to said the feature is “planned”, so I’m not sure what you mean when you say you’d welcome help. Are you working on this internally (and as such this is essentially a “we’re looking for mobile engineers”) or are you soliciting contributions from the open source community to work on this?
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