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jasonblais··on Atlassian is 20 years old and unprofitable
For Kanban board-like tools, there is also Focalboard [1], from the makers of Mattermost.

[1] https://www.focalboard.com/

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Thank you! Appreciate the feedback, agree we probably could have provided more transparent feedback for the community.

Out of curiosity, where would you have looked for such updates? GitHub issues?

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Glad you had a lovely interview experience! :)
jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Thanks for your feedback! Mattermost PM here,

We now have multiple Mattermost server support in the mobile apps in Beta! If you're interested to try it out, here's how you can join the Mattermost Mobile app beta program.

The community feedback on the Beta version has thus far being excellent, and helps us improve the user experience before we ship multi-server support as a stable release to everyone :)

[1] https://mattermost.com/blog/mattermost-mobile-app-beta-progr...

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Sorry to hear about your experience, Mattermost PM here.

Are you open to sharing more about the challenges you saw with notifications? We're always looking for feedback to improve the product experience.

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Mattermost PM here, thanks for the feedback!

Are you thinking of Reddit (or HN) style threads?

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
You just made my day, @ratww!
jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
That's right, the stand-alone personal desktop is an option for single users.

If you're looking to use Focalboard for multiple users, you can use it in Mattermost where it's integrated as Boards: https://mattermost.com/boards/

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Thanks for the kind words! Mattermost PM here :)
jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Mattermost PM here, thanks for using the product! Love to hear it :)

Do you have any wishes around Mattermost? We're always looking for ways to improve the product experience.

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Mattermost PM here, thanks for using the product! :)

Do you have any wishes for improving Mattermost for your team?

jasonblais··on Mattermost – open-source platform for secure collaboration
Mattermost PM here, thanks for using Focalboard! Love to hear it :)
jasonblais··on Appflowy – open-source Notion Alternative
If you give focalboard a try, we'd love to hear feedback! :)

https://www.focalboard.com/feedback/

jasonblais··on We Switched to Mattermost
It was indeed unintended, caused by a bad git merge from a long-running feature branch. :)

As part of the revised implementation, the proposal is to add unit testing, so that we can detect it in the future as part of our build process.

jasonblais··on We Switched to Mattermost
hi @tremon, Mattermost PM here, that is the same across all editions.
jasonblais··on We Switched to Mattermost
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...

jasonblais··on We Switched to Mattermost
Hi, Mattermost PM here,

We offer a non-profit license for open-source projects [0] with special nonprofit pricing. We also plan to move the System Permissions Scheme into the open source Team Edition with the 6.0 release on September 15 [1].

Thanks for being a user, feedback is always welcome!

[0] https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ [1] https://forum.mattermost.org/t/granular-permissions-coming-s...

jasonblais··on Self hosting is important
Thank you! Really appreciate your feedback here.
jasonblais··on Self hosting is important
Mattermost PM here, thanks for sharing and sorry to hear that your experience wasn't smooth when you tried the product.

We'd love to improve, are there one or two things top of mind for us to change? You mentioned occasionally missing notifications?

jasonblais··on Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack
Hey, Mattermost PM here.

There is a hosted SaaS version of Mattermost as well. We don't have an established non-profit license for it yet, but you can contact community[at]mattermost.com and we'd be happy to discuss options.

jasonblais··on Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative
This is an exciting release! Look forward to seeing how this project takes off.
jasonblais··on Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat
Mattermost PM here, thanks for the mention and the feedback!

We have seen some users integrate Mattermost into an existing application. I'm not sure if these resources may be helpful? - docs.mattermost.com/integrations/embedding.html - https://forum.mattermost.org/t/recipe-embedding-mattermost-i...

If you have any questions or feedback, would love to hear as well.

jasonblais··on Notion API – public beta
Mattermost PM here, thanks for suggesting Focalboard!

@rubyist5eva You can learn more about Focalboard - the open-source alternative to Trello, Asana and Notion - at https://focalboard.com/.

jasonblais··on Slack is down
@pas: Mattermost is indeed integrated with GitLab Omnibus.

To enable Mattermost, you can add the Mattermost external URL in the config file, and run `sudo gitlab-ctl reconfigure`. I'm wondering if that's something you've tried? https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/gitlab-mattermost/#getting-s...

jasonblais··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Given that - Microsoft considered an $8B acquisition early 2016 - Salesforce does a $28B acquisition late 2020

That's only about 3x growth in almost 5 years. Don't get me wrong, this is a massive acquisition, but I still say "only" given the hypergrowth experienced by many adjacent tech companies.

So I think Microsoft may be quite happy they decided not to acquire Slack at such a high tag price nearly 5 years ago.

jasonblais··on Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
Certainly an opportunity for Discord, but I wonder how big of an opportunity. Their target audience is more casual whereas Slack's has shifted to more work/Enterprise-focused. So their audiences don't overlap as much as they used to.

It will be interesting how this impacts Mattermost [1] though - an open source developer collaboration tool for Enterprises, a closer competitor to Slack.

[1] http://mattermost.com/

jasonblais··on Mattermost Integrations Guide, Episode One: A New Hook
Great article from Paul Rothrock on how to get started with Mattermost integrations.
jasonblais··on I thought I would have accomplished a lot more today and also before I was 35
Agree and disagree.

Agree that someone who "works insanely hard" will advance quicker. However, I disagree that's necessarily the best approach long-term.

When in university, I did something for each of my courses every day. Studied something new, reviewed past materials, solved an assignment. I did it every day. Continuous improvement.

I never had an all-nighter or really crammed for an exam. Yet I got the best marks. It's not because I was an Einstein - it's because I improved on each of the previous 90 days that got me to the required level faster than working insanely hard over a few days.

Continuously improve - do one thing every day. Two if you can. In 90 days, you'll be 90 ways closer to your goal than you were before.

jasonblais··on Modern ways of end-to-end testing with Cypress JavaScript
An excellent article by Zubair Ahmed, great insights!
jasonblais··on Element wins deal to supply half a million licences to two German states
Mattermost PM here - we are actively working on improving threads, would love to hear your feedback!

Would you be open to sharing them in our feature proposal forum (https://mattermost.uservoice.com/forums/306457-general/sugge...) or join the Folded Reply Threads channel (https://community.mattermost.com/core/channels/folded-reply-...) on our community server?

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