Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack

Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by newsat13 on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @01:45PM (#21817071)

When I checked mattermost a year ago, the mattermost opensource edition had no basic permissions/access control. Any user could archive any channel. I have seen many teams fall into this "trap" only to find this basic restriction later. We since moved to Rocket.Chat. Is this still the case?

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by 153791098c on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:14PM (#21818241)

That restriction aside, how do you compare rocket chat to mattermost? Is it better?

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by Freak_NL on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @02:05PM (#21817348)

You can create private channels in MatterMost for as long as I can remember.

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by penagwin on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:46PM (#21818629)

But are there access controls other than private channels?

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by ondrej_s on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @03:53PM (#21818701)

I'm trying to push the agenda to switch our comms between developers fully to Keybase, but it will be probably rejected.

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by vorpalhex on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:43PM (#21819219)

Keybase is.. not ready for prime time. It's pretty janky, channel discovery is a pain as is spam, and it's still got that weird crypto half-baked nonsense.

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by mclehman on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @05:34PM (#21819682)

Team discovery could be a pain, but channel discovery within a team is pretty much everything I would expect it to be.

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by kfrzcode on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @04:54PM (#21819342)

Be the change! https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by Maxious on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:26PM (#21820142)

Access control is intentionally missing from the open source "team" version:

> Team Edition is "virtual office" where a team works together as trusted colleagues. It means people can walk anywhere they want, and move the furniture if they choose.

> I need to ask this ticket be closed since it's not a bug

> You're of course more than welcome to fork as well.

https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-server/issues/6320

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Re:Story of Mattermost: Open-Sourced Competitor to Slack by btown on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:34PM (#21820225)

But would Mattermost accept a PR that cuts into the differentiation on "advanced access control" of their enterprise product? https://mattermost.com/pricing/

Open source is only as powerful as the community's willingness to maintain a fork.

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