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you can also just host your own push proxy service using their open source code... https://docs.mattermost.com/deploy/mobile-hpns.html#host-you...
Then you also need to build and distribute Android and iOS apps for your employees. Congrats, you now have a significantly larger project than "put Mattermost on a server and update it occasionally".
It does work, but doesn't shine in any aspect. Android app can't keep a connection alive, media embeds are wonky, unicode filename support is wonky, it stutters in many places. Element and Matrix are better, no joke. Plus you get E2E and federation.
I've gotten it working correctly with nginx
Unfortunately, while it does keep your history, the search is pretty lousy (there is a better search available for paying customers) and you can't export private conversations (unless you pay them).
They gotta make money, and I'm not paying them, so I understand withholding features. That said, I keep looking at the Matrix ecosystem, and I think the only thing keeping me at MM is the switching cost at this point (not being able to export messages is an effective lock-in feature, though rather user-unfriendly if you ask me).
While competition is always welcome, i wonder how many more collaboration services we're gonna get before someone finally makes "the service" to use.
There are a variety of needs and use-cases, so "the" doesn't make sense. Look at what your situation needs and see which tool is the best for you. You don't need to use a certain brand of tool just because everybody else is.
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What made the learning curve higher for non-technical members on Zulip than it was on Slack? It’s been a few years since I used Zulip, but I don’t feel like it had a particularly different level of complexity.
I think the fact that you must give a thread topic to send a message. It's not particularly difficult concept, but different from every other chat app. And for a large user base being confronted with this demand "when they just want to send a message" is frustrating.
On the other hand, you’re asking people to buy into what is essentially a completely different paradigm than what they’re used to. Maybe it’s more like a loosely-structured wiki than a chat app.
I really like it, though. I feel like it deserves a lot more attention than it seems to get.
While competition is always welcome, i wonder how many more collaboration services we're gonna get before someone finally makes "the service" to use.
It will happen a few days after somebody invents "the" programming language to use, "the" hiring process to use, "the" IDE to use, "the" development process to use, etc. There are a variety of needs and use-cases, so "the" doesn't make sense. Look at what your situation needs and see which tool is the best for you. You don't need to use a certain brand of tool just because everybody else is.
I've been using the self hosted version with a 10-person team for a year now and so far we like it. It's not as good as Slack (yet), but if you need to self-host, I can absolutely recommend it.
I've run a Mattermost installation off the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet for about 4 years. Moved away from Slack due to the 10k message limit and the fact that I could self-host it. Unfortunately, while it does keep your history, the search is pretty lousy (there is a better search available for paying customers) and you can't export private conversations (unless you pay them). They gotta make money, and I'm not pa…
Reminder that Mattermost's f/oss self-hosted version embeds segment.io phone-home spyware on by default which must be disabled with a barely-documented env var (called "diagnostics").
Every config setting has an equivalent env var option.
You can either use an env var, or change the setting via system console, or directly change your config.json file - LogSettings.EnableDiagnostics = false.