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Interesting, could you let us know a bit about Mattermost, is it missing any (main) features that Slack has? The #NeuroMethods slack is currently on Slack with about 18000 users.. Would that be too much?
Edit: I realized that you were posting for Planetary scientists and we are Neuroscientists but I am just generally interested in any slack alternatives (not necessarily in invading your space! 😅)
@elduvelle I would say that mattermost is identical to Slack in its base functionality. I have no idea if 18000 users would pose a problem or not: I suspect that you just need enough bandwidth and CPU.
@elduvelle There are some minor differences in the control panels (for example, I couldn't find a way to export all user email addresses). There are also a bunch of plugins, though not all are "great". I would just make sure that the plugins you need exist before transitioning.
@elduvelle I also don't think that there is a way to send a system message to all teams/users on the server (like for scheduled maintenance).
There is also no "easy" way to automatically subscribe people to popular channels. There is a "Welcome bot plugin" that allows you to do this, but you have to manually edit a json config files with millions of nested [{ }]s!
Mark Wieczorek
in reply to Mark Wieczorek • • •El Duvelle
in reply to Mark Wieczorek • • •Interesting, could you let us know a bit about Mattermost, is it missing any (main) features that Slack has?
The #NeuroMethods slack is currently on Slack with about 18000 users.. Would that be too much?
Edit: I realized that you were posting for Planetary scientists and we are Neuroscientists but I am just generally interested in any slack alternatives (not necessarily in invading your space! 😅)
Mark Wieczorek
in reply to El Duvelle • • •Mark Wieczorek
in reply to Mark Wieczorek • • •Mark Wieczorek
in reply to Mark Wieczorek • • •@elduvelle I also don't think that there is a way to send a system message to all teams/users on the server (like for scheduled maintenance).
There is also no "easy" way to automatically subscribe people to popular channels. There is a "Welcome bot plugin" that allows you to do this, but you have to manually edit a json config files with millions of nested [{ }]s!
El Duvelle
in reply to Mark Wieczorek • • •Maybe there's a way to automatically update that json file with Python or something..