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Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by gkhartman »

hardwaresofton wrote: post #26
jasonblais wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's right, the stand-alone personal desktop is an option for single users. If you're looking to use Focalboard for multiple users, you can use it in Mattermost where it's integrated as Boards: https://mattermost.com/boards/

What am I missing? The server version works great with multiple users as long as you invite the second one with a link...

Yep, our self hosted Focalboard server works with multiple users. I had a bit of trouble figuring out that the share link is used to trigger the set up of additional users. I was initially looking for a link labeled "create account" or similar. I've been really happy with it and love its simplicity.

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by msh »

Shadonototra wrote: post #2

How can it be secure if they are able to track you this far? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852914

See the update here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31853107

It was a problem sending the email to wrong accounts. The CEO states later in the thread that they don't track that kind of info from selfhosted instances.

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by codefined »

number6 wrote: post #17

I wished my Organization would adopt Mattermost. Using it for years as a Chat to stay in touch with my friends. My Org uses MS Teams (because it is already bundled with MS 365). What Mattermost is missing is a Videochat / Videoconferencing option - there is a plugin but I didn´t tried it yet: https://mattermost.com/marketplace/microsoft-teams-meetings/

Mattermost v7 was released on Thursday and includes video conferencing functionality! [0]

> Channels: Voice calls and screen share (beta)

[0] https://mattermost.com/blog/mattermost-v7-0-is-now-available...

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by messutied »

number6 wrote: post #17

I wished my Organization would adopt Mattermost. Using it for years as a Chat to stay in touch with my friends. My Org uses MS Teams (because it is already bundled with MS 365). What Mattermost is missing is a Videochat / Videoconferencing option - there is a plugin but I didn´t tried it yet: https://mattermost.com/marketplace/microsoft-teams-meetings/

What do you like about Mattermost that’s missing in MS Teams?

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by Blahah »

temp wrote: post #24
unixhero wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You self host their enterprise solution? I think you're missing the point, migrate to the community edition. We pay 0 (but contribute with donations).

I don't think we are missing the point, we were looking for a Slack alternative and found one. They charged a bit to give you push notifications, now they charge more of it. If not having push notifications were an option for us, we'd have simply downgraded.

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...

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by hiidrew »

number6 wrote: post #17

I wished my Organization would adopt Mattermost. Using it for years as a Chat to stay in touch with my friends. My Org uses MS Teams (because it is already bundled with MS 365). What Mattermost is missing is a Videochat / Videoconferencing option - there is a plugin but I didn´t tried it yet: https://mattermost.com/marketplace/microsoft-teams-meetings/

mine uses teams and mattermost :/ love the splintered comms stack!

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by solar-ice »

Blahah wrote: post #35
temp wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think we are missing the point, we were looking for a Slack alternative and found one. They charged a bit to give you push notifications, now they charge more of it. If not having push notifications were an option for us, we'd have simply downgraded.

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".

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by EGreg »

temp wrote: post #4

They decided to up their price per user by a significant amount not too long ago... our self-hosted instance suddenly became more expensive than Slack but with an obviously not nearly as polished product as Slack. So we moved over to Zulip because at least they do their own thing, we haven't had any regrets over the switch to Zulip.

I thought Self-Hosted was free to you? What does self-hosted even mean otherwise

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by fiatjaf »

It's good that this exists, but Mattermost's threads are very suboptimal.

If Alice posts a message and Bob replies, then _that is_ the thread. If that thread goes into a certain path you can't branch off of it, you can't reply to Alice's original message if you're talking about a different thing.

I don't know if this makes sense, but hopefully you got my point.

Re: Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration

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Post by bradwood »

Nextgrid wrote: post #3
Shadonototra wrote: post #2

How can it be secure if they are able to track you this far? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31852914

> To answer some of the other questions on this thread, no customer logs nor PII get submitted to the 3rd party service that we use, which is called Descartes [...] We pass name and billing address only.

and name and address is not PII?
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