It’s still used pretty heavily in enterprise and high security environments.
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woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Didn’t realize Mattermost still existed.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
dan@upvote.au 2 months ago
I know of at least one FAANG company that uses a self-hosted, self-contained Mattermost instance, totally separate to all their infra, for communication in major outages when all their internal tools are down.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
If it’s the same one I’m thinking of they had to use saws to cut into their data centers after a major outage.
Eheran@lemmy.world 2 months ago
High security? Without encryption?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re not connected to the Internet at all in a lot of cases.
Plus these large organizations want to be able to read the chats in the DB for compliance and legal reasons.
twelvety@fedia.io 2 months ago
Yep, and very actively developed too.
Whilst I disagree with some of their technical decisions, it's really good at what it does.
This report is sad to read, and concerning that Mattermost are not communicating back to the community.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
Do you know of a better alternative? No irony here, I’m looking for something similar for family and company (50 to 100 people) setting. Was thinking of deploying Mattermost. For family, we settled on Matrix and it mostly works. We are at their default server, and I’m considering self-hosting it in the future. Yet, I’m not sure it’s a good idea to have Matrix deployed for a company. It lacks too many features, including search. Mattermost looked like the best option for me. I did try it locally a couple of months back, and mostly liked it.
However, I never liked them as a company. They have been giving me those ‘we’d give you the community this wonderful opportunity to develop the software for us, for free’ vibes. Now, it feels like my impression correct.
Exec@pawb.social 2 months ago
Have you tried Zulip?
simonlm@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I just looked at this as I’m looking for a self hosted version, and Zulip has the same 10000 message history limit as the OP.
duncan_bayne@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not for self-hosted installations, where Zulip aren’t paying for the storage themselves.
wltr@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
I did, while it mostly okay, I don’t like the mobile notifications limit. Even for a family, ten people is quite small, as inviting a couple of friends would reach the limit.
With all the chat options, I’m looking for a self-hosted fully controlled version. So for me, that’s a bit weird that a self-hosted version is crippled in any way. If Zulip allows me to self-host the mobile notification thingy, then I think it’s a good alternative. I haven’t explored that yet.