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I am more concerned about Mattermost long term future than Slack. If/when slack gets obsoloted and abandonned for the next big thing then what of Mattermost ? W
by johnchristopher 9y ago
I am more concerned about Mattermost long term future than Slack. If/when slack gets obsoloted and abandonned for the next big thing then what of Mattermost ? Will it have enough developpers's mindshare to ensure its existence considering if slack is gone then there's no need to provide an alternative ?
I suppose it'd be better to build a slack clone based on xmpp.
- PakG1 9y agoI'm not so concerned. I think the only thing that would kill Slack is financial factors (financing if it turns out people don't want to pay for it anymore) or bureaucratic factors (if it gets acquired and then mired in corporate stupidity). I think Slack did the favour of proving to the world that people wanted something more than IRC or Skype. If Slack dies for any of the above reasons, that won't cause people's need for a solution to disappear. I imagine Mattermost would survive just fine. If Mattermost dies, it will be because something came along that's better, similar to how I started out with ICQ, then jumped to MSN Messenger, and now I'm on Whatsapp, WeChat, Kakao Talk, Slack, and Mattermost. Same for Slack. If Slack dies because of better competition, perhaps we'll shift to that away from Mattermost. Who knows? Gah, how is it possible that the number of chat clients I use keeps growing? edit: typo
- nix0n 9y agoMattermost is open and self hosted so if development stops it'll just continue to exist in an unchanging state. If people start communicating in another way, their Mattermost history will still be available and searchable.