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Why Mattermost over Rocket.chat, Let's Chat, or Kandan (as listed at https://about.gitlab.com/direction/ https://about.gitlab.com/direction/)?

sytse 11y ago
Nice that you found that page! We considered all of them. Rocket.chat and Mattermost seemed like the best products. I don't like that Rocket.chat is made with Meteor and therefore Mongo only, we already ship and love PostgreSQL. Also, I met Ian from the Mattermost team at YC camp and we hit it off together.
- engelgabriel 11y ago
  It’s a shame you didn't to talk to us too. There are a lot of benefits of using Meteor. First, it plans to be DB agnostic, so Postgres support will come in the next version, and many other DBs. So if that was the main reason, it's was a bit short sighted. Also, we have already submitted our Mobile apps to Google Play and Apple Store. Sure the first version is Hybrid, but they work really well, and the native version is on the making. We are also working with a team from the US army to implements the DoD Manual 5200.01V2 so they can use it at government agencies too. On scalability, we are pushing the limits with a deployment that has 40k users for the Federal University in Brazil. Hopefully GitLab will not commit to a single option so early, that would be premature at this point, and maybe we can work together to offer another chat option?
  - sytse 11y ago
    I send you an email to set up a call.
  - kohenkatz 11y ago
    Looking forward to seeing PostgreSQL support! MongoDB is the only reason I'm not using Rocket.chat at the moment.
    - engelgabriel 11y ago
      Meteor 1.2 will ship later this summer with Official SQL support http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-beyond http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-be...
      - kabes 11y ago
        That's not what that post says. It says SQL integration will probably come after 1.2
- kohenkatz 11y ago
  I agree with you about the MongoDB barrier. That's the only reason I haven't already set up a Rocket.chat server myself yet. I have worked with MongoDB on several applications in the past, and I just "don't get" why people think so highly of it.
  - engelgabriel 11y ago
    On behalf of the Rocket.Chat team, I am are happy to announce that we will work with GitLab to get our chat solution on Omnibus too. https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/milestones/GitLab%200.8 https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/milestones/GitLab%...

sytse 11y ago

Nice that you found that page! We considered all of them. Rocket.chat and Mattermost seemed like the best products. I don't like that Rocket.chat is made with Meteor and therefore Mongo only, we already ship and love PostgreSQL. Also, I met Ian from the Mattermost team at YC camp and we hit it off together.

engelgabriel 11y ago
It’s a shame you didn't to talk to us too. There are a lot of benefits of using Meteor. First, it plans to be DB agnostic, so Postgres support will come in the next version, and many other DBs. So if that was the main reason, it's was a bit short sighted. Also, we have already submitted our Mobile apps to Google Play and Apple Store. Sure the first version is Hybrid, but they work really well, and the native version is on the making. We are also working with a team from the US army to implements the DoD Manual 5200.01V2 so they can use it at government agencies too. On scalability, we are pushing the limits with a deployment that has 40k users for the Federal University in Brazil. Hopefully GitLab will not commit to a single option so early, that would be premature at this point, and maybe we can work together to offer another chat option?
- sytse 11y ago
  I send you an email to set up a call.
- kohenkatz 11y ago
  Looking forward to seeing PostgreSQL support! MongoDB is the only reason I'm not using Rocket.chat at the moment.
  - engelgabriel 11y ago
    Meteor 1.2 will ship later this summer with Official SQL support http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-beyond http://info.meteor.com/blog/whats-coming-in-meteor-12-and-be...
    - kabes 11y ago
      That's not what that post says. It says SQL integration will probably come after 1.2
kohenkatz 11y ago
I agree with you about the MongoDB barrier. That's the only reason I haven't already set up a Rocket.chat server myself yet. I have worked with MongoDB on several applications in the past, and I just "don't get" why people think so highly of it.
- engelgabriel 11y ago
  On behalf of the Rocket.Chat team, I am are happy to announce that we will work with GitLab to get our chat solution on Omnibus too. https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/milestones/GitLab%200.8 https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/milestones/GitLab%...