We Switched to Mattermost

• Mattermost

  142 28,049 9.9 TypeScript

  Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..

  

Hi, Mattermost PM here,

Really appreciate your feedback. We had intended to pause the admin advisor notifications couple of months ago but due to an intended bug some of the messages are still coming through. We've queued an update to pause them in the next release (v5.38). [1]

The original vision for the admin advisor notification feature was to guide administrators through proper activation and configuration of the system as the needs of their user base evolves, with some additional capabilities in the Enterprise offering. However, based on the feedback we received, it was evident that the experience felt spammy with limited value which was not the intent, negatively impacting the trust with our community. Hence why we've decided to pause admin advisor notifications at this time.

[1] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/pull/16218#i...

• matterhorn

  4 1,006 7.4 Haskell

  A feature-rich Unix terminal client for the Mattermost chat system

  

I can also recommend a console client (in Haskell) - Matterhorn [1]. For me, the biggest obstacle right now is the lack of support of chat categories in mobile [2] client and Matterhorn [3]. These chat categories are available in the web interface.

[1] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn

[2] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/issues/5387

[3] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn/issues/711

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• mattermost-mobile

  20 2,081 9.8 TypeScript

  Next generation iOS and Android apps for Mattermost in React Native

  

I can also recommend a console client (in Haskell) - Matterhorn [1]. For me, the biggest obstacle right now is the lack of support of chat categories in mobile [2] client and Matterhorn [3]. These chat categories are available in the web interface.

[1] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn

[2] https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-mobile/issues/5387

[3] https://github.com/matterhorn-chat/matterhorn/issues/711

• matterbridge

  37 6,300 3.1 Go

  bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix, microsoft teams, nextcloud, mumble, vk and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

There is Matterbridge[1] that supports many different protocols including Matrix.

[1] https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge

• Rocket.Chat

  118 38,801 9.9 TypeScript

  The communications platform that puts data protection first.

  

Hmm, based on what i've heard, Mattermost is indeed pretty popular software - it seems to have a whole bunch of integrations with other platforms, for example, GitLab!

That said, personally i use Rocket.Chat, which has been pretty easy to self host: https://rocket.chat/

I'm sure that someone who has experience with both could drop by and share their experience, but if nothing else, it's at least nice to have these options to choose from.

Either way, i can definitely confirm that most of these platforms indeed are very well off on smaller VPSes, as long as you don't have too much data in them (think file uploads rather than just messages).

• Sandstorm

  51 6,636 5.4 JavaScript

  Sandstorm is a self-hostable web productivity suite. It's implemented as a security-hardened web app package manager.

  

Sandstorm itself is updated at least once a month:

https://github.com/sandstorm-io/sandstorm/blob/master/CHANGE...

A few of the apps get regular updates, but admittedly a lot of them have gone stale. Sandstorm's security model makes it so that this isn't a security risk in the way it would be on other platforms, but it's certainly disappointing if you're looking for the latest versions of apps.

Suggest a related project