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Comment by carolosf

25 days ago

I used to use Mattermost. Highly recommend looking at Zulip as an alternative. (It’s my favourite slack alternative and even better than Slack because it’s the best at managing distractions IMO. It also has an interesting history was acquired by Dropbox and then back from Dropbox I believe)

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gtech1  25 days ago

I love Zulip too, use it daily, wrote some nice integrations for it. Never got why people preferred Mattermost over it

paper2d  25 days ago

Zulip too has similar restrictions even on their self hosted plans. SAML/LDAP is behind paywall too.

  • bayindirh  25 days ago

    Just looked to their self hosted plans:

        - No limitation on search, members, etc.
    - 10 user limit for mobile notifications, can be relaxed via community (for non-profits, FOSS projects, etc.)
    - SAML/LDAP *support* is available, you can configure it. They won't provide answers to your questions.
    - Actually, all Zulip features are enabled sans Mobile Notifications, but for most of them, you're on your own. If you know what you're doing, it's not a problem, I assume.

    IOW, for self-hosted plans, you pay for support, not the software. a-la early RedHat model.

    Ref: https://zulip.com/plans/#self-hosted-sponsorships

  • Valodim  25 days ago

    This is false, SAML and LDAP are available. Zulip self hosted has all features with no restrictions, except for mobile notifications which require a subscription for $3.50/u/m (unless you are less than 10 users or are not a non-profit of any kind)

    • zukzuk  25 days ago

      It’s a bit odd though that Zulip charge $ for mobile notifications but still don’t have basic end-to-end encryption for those push notifications .

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    • RobotToaster  25 days ago

      > unless you are less than 10 users or are not a non-profit of any kind

      They only give free accounts to non-profits with zero paid staff.