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Just yesterday I was musing that if I were King of the (World|Company) I'd want an open-source Slack-alike that I could just drop into the Cloud of my choice an
by biztos 7y ago
Just yesterday I was musing that if I were King of the (World|Company) I'd want an open-source Slack-alike that I could just drop into the Cloud of my choice and operate entirely within my private network, subject to my own access control just like other internal services, and with full access to all message histories in whatever database-like thing it uses in its Cloud. Sure, I'd still have a SPOF but it's game over anyway if my Cloud goes dark.
Is there such a project, and if so does it have any traction in the real world?
(Oh and ditto for every damn thing Atlassian owns. Yikes.)
- thg 7y agohttps://mattermost.com/ https://mattermost.com/
- asah 7y agoWe use this at my company - perfectly reasonable UI, don't know about the APIs/integrations, which I assume are way behind Slack...
- lwhalen 7y agoThe Mattermost API is a superset of Slack's. "Most" integrations "just work", the rest need a minimum of tweaking to DTRT.
- zild3d 7y agoMattermost API being a superset of Slack's seems to be mostly true, but looking at the features our Slack app uses I don't see block kit (https://api.slack.com/block-kit https://api.slack.com/block-kit) or message scheduling. If we were to integrate with Mattermost it doesn't look like it'd be a ton of work though Have to say Mattermost's API docs are so much easier to read than Slack's.
- icelancer 7y agoSlack's API documentation and handling of accounts/bots is so obscure. I've never seen anything that bad from a major company.
- manaskarekar 7y agoDunno about feature parity but zulip is great. https://zulipchat.com https://zulipchat.com https://github.com/zulip/zulip https://github.com/zulip/zulip
- evanwalsh 7y agoZulip, Rocket.Chat, and Mattermost are probably the best options.