On 1), our SaaS version is equivalent to our higher end Enterprise Edition E20 and aimed at larger orgs. For small orgs we have the open source version that can be easily self-hosted. That said, it sounds like price is material for you, so maybe there’s something we can do at a lower price tier, with features closer to our open source product.
On 2), Focalboard is still in its early days. We are using it internally and with early adopters of the open source version and are pretty excited about where it could go—replacing Trello, Asana, Notion, Jire, Confluence on-prem and as SaaS in the long run, and on an open source platform you can customize.
Our hope is in future there could be a “Why we switched to Mattermost and Focalboard” with a blog post on replacing a fair chunk of the collaboration stack with an open source alternative that could be extended.
.org and .com is common practice for many project - just maybe should make sure there is a link between 2 sites - I checked your site .com and even when opensource is mentionnned, it's on the .com site - instead of linking to the .org... just my 2cents
I don’t know what the parent comment said, but more screenshots on your site would be great! The .org site you linked to had screenshots on the front page, which was great, but a gallery link would be fantastic.
Thanks @xvilka, Mattermost CEO here. Categories are a new feature, in beta in a lot of deployments. It’ll take a little bit for the other clients to catch up. Definitely one of the most popular new features.
Hi.
Here are my gripes. Minor but surely adds up when used everyday.
1. The reply button is too far away and small. It probably doesn't hurt to add text next to the icons like shown in the video in 4 to increase the click area.
In another chat app (Chatwork), I can quote a message explicitly and I can also select a part of another message to quote only that, which is very useful when just responding to a part of another message especially when that message was long.
5. Not seen in the above video but if someone else quotes me, the whole message's background gets highlighted, so I can easily notice.
6. Mobile app needs to be able to access multiple servers but I'm sure you already have this request from many.
7. You said in another post that people get logged out automatically for security reasons but I think that puts a lot of inconvenience as I can only explain to those infrequent users it's some kind of bug because they wouldn't agree it's a "feature" when they lose further push notifications by not doing anything wrong themselves. This is the biggest reason I cannot recommend Mattermost when it can be seen as unreliable.
8. This is probably never going to be changed but I don't like that everyone has to join a global room when they join a team. I'd rather want people to only join specific channels. Kind of puts a wrong pressure to have everyone who don't even talk to usually in a same room and a possibility to type something wrong to everyone isn't a plus either. I can make many teams but that loses visibility to all the channels I belong to in a single view.
9. Ability to disable automatic formatting globally. It's always annoying when people just type symbols only to end up the message looking funny and I want to disable automatic formatting. In fact, I don't remember when I ever needed to format my message in a chat when I'm not composing a wiki page.
Simply typing "text[new line]---[new line]text" would yield this.
I still think it's the best self hosted chat solution but lack of much visible improvements for years (I know you're keep making constant updates on the server component) is making me lose much faith on where it's going.
- You've shared some really interesting ideas around quoting parts of messages. While it's possible to use the markdown `>` character to insert a quote, I think we can certainly improve here to make quoting more easily accessible. Would you be open to share your ideas on the feature idea forum: https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general
- We are working toward a v2 of our mobile app that will support connecting to multiple Mattermost servers and have improved team and channel navigation. We expect to open it up for beta testers later this year. You can check out the designs here https://www.figma.com/file/a9w2q3JnVvBwo2IScP8j3K/Phase-1-De.... Let me know if you have any feedback or thoughts!
- We allow System Administrators to customize session lengths to keep users logged in for longer if desired. We also offer an option for Administrators to enable automatically extending sessions with activity so users will stay logged in indefinitely as long as they have activity in Mattermost at any time within the specified session duration. You can learn more at: https://mattermost.com/blog/session-expiry-experience/
At the same time, if people are using our open source project to showcase their work, I am a fan.
We definitely do that ourselves talking about React, React Native and Golang :)