Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
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Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
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Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#2Cool :). It would have been nice to see some more screenshots or product videos in order to get a feel for it.
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#3Nice project but the documentation is a bit terse (yet). We like https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat atm.
Things that would be essential for me to use it in a company are
- LDAP or OAUTH integration - Hubot integration
I'm not sure Zapier integration cuts it for use cases where I want a self hosted solution.
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#4Will there be plugin support so teams can share their add-ons?
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#5I don't really get why there is so many Slack alternatives coming up these days.
On every post like this there is tons of comment linking to other Slack alternatives, it's not like this is gonna be _the_ Slack-alternative.
Here is a non exhaustive list :
RocketChat : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9624737
Let's Chat : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9040841
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#6Here's the code: https://github.com/mattermost/platform
From the look of the screenshots ( http://www.mattermost.org/70-2/ ), I'd say there are some copyright concerns with the styles. This isn't a Slack alternative, it's a Slack clone. That's very problematic from a copyright stance. Why not create your own design style?
Gogs had (has?) this same issue: https://github.com/gogits/gogs/issues/1069
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#7> Teams who can’t use SaaS rely on cryptic, decades-old technologies. As an example, the US Army uses myIRC to order missile strikes
"myIRC" doesn't exist. The name of the protocol is IRC. The name of a popular Windows client is mIRC. WikiLeaks called their leak "mIRC logs," which is where this trope came from.
The United States military (not just the Army) uses Internet Relay Chat for a whole lot of C2. It runs on a network, both IRC and IP, dedicated to the purpose. Given how long IRC has been in existence, that they've been doing it since the early 90s, that the use case is the perfect ideal for IRC, and that the average modern Web app is less reliable than my last Datsun, I have a hard time finding incredulity at sticking with something that works.
Even beyond that, IRC is text-based. It is not cryptic. An IRC client is a common first software project. About twenty lines of Go gets you a bot. You can make IRC look exactly like Mattermost with a week of hacking in your favorite framework of choice, and then you're not reinventing fanout. Entire products have been built atop IRC.
Even beyond that, guess how many protocols are decades old in just the software development workflow for this product. Pretty tired of "that's old, let's do it better," even though I hate finding myself on this side of defending IRC.
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#8Also, there is http://getkaiwa.com/, with roughly the same features, open protocol and a built-in LDAP. Hubot integration is also possible.
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#9> Teams who can’t use SaaS rely on cryptic, decades-old technologies. As an example, the US Army uses myIRC to order missile strikes "myIRC" doesn't exist. The name of the protocol is IRC. The name of a popular Windows client is mIRC. WikiLeaks called their leak "mIRC logs," which is where this trope came from. The United States military (not just the Army) uses Internet Relay Chat for a whole lot of C2. It runs on a…
IRC federates easily, requires minimal resources, and is vastly more efficient when it comes to bandwidth usage. (you'll notice this over satellite links)
plus it works in screen natively
Re: Mattermost: Open-source, on-premises, Slack alternative
#10can i run it on Linux?