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Has anyone had experience with both Matrix and Mattermost? What are the main differences between the two? Apropos of nothing, currently I am running: * Sign
by bloopernova 7y ago
Has anyone had experience with both Matrix and Mattermost? What are the main differences between the two?
Apropos of nothing, currently I am running:
* Signal
* Wife
* Family
* Google Hangouts (web)
* Friends and ex-coworkers
* Slack
* Vendor A
* Vendor B
* Team C
* Team D
* Keybase
* Some friends
* SMS
* My Stepdaughter
* Skype
* Coworkers too stubborn to open Mattermost or change what they do
* Mattermost
* Coworkers
* Various teams and groups
* Remote Desktop
* Microsoft Teams
* My team
* Client coworkers
* Other teams at client
* Microsoft Skype for Business
* Chats from people who don't use MS Teams
* Meetings
* Gitter
* Spacemacs chat
* IRC (web)
* Various random channels
Out of all of those, only SMS isn't on my macbook, and I'm sure I could put it on there if I wanted to.
- kethinov 7y agoMattermost is currently a better UX with a more stable codebase, but I suspect that the Matrix/Riot federated model will one day overtake Mattermost. Personally I use Mattermost at work and Matrix/Riot for personal chat. If Matrix/Riot began to overtake Mattermost in terms of UX, we would probably replace Mattermost with Matrix/Riot at work.
- bloopernova 7y agoThank you!
- ajxs 7y agoYou've just described my nightmare scenario. I'm currently experiencing "Messaging app fatigue" and I'm not using even a quarter of the apps that you are.
- bloopernova 7y agoYes, fatigue is a great word for it.
- __d 7y agoMy list isn't quite that long, but I'm using Franz to put most of them into a single window (albeit, with many tabs). Sadly, it doesn't work with iMessage, nor Signal. I just wish it was a native app, although I appreciate that'd make the effort involved 100x more.
- jeltz 7y agoI use SMS, Slack, Discord, Skype, IRC, Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp, so you have me beat by 3. :) It would be amazing of Matrix and its bridges got good enough so I could reduce this number a bit.
- pabs3 7y agoI really wish Telepathy took off, then you could have one single app that speaks each of those protocols and talks to the relevant servers. https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/ https://telepathy.freedesktop.org/
- ptman 7y agoMatrix has bridges to many different chat systems
- pabs3 7y agoThe bridges are server side, so you have less control over what they do.
- jeltz 7y agoPidgin already exists but seems to have bad support for newer protocols for some reason.
- pabs3 7y agoTelepathy has some architectural advantages over Pidgin. IIRC it can use Pidgin network plugins as Telepathy backends though.