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I've run a Mattermost installation off the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet for about 4 years. Moved away from Slack due to the 10k message limit and the fact tha
by karaterobot 4y ago
I've run a Mattermost installation off the cheapest Digital Ocean droplet for about 4 years. Moved away from Slack due to the 10k message limit and the fact that I could self-host it.
Unfortunately, while it does keep your history, the search is pretty lousy (there is a better search available for paying customers) and you can't export private conversations (unless you pay them).
They gotta make money, and I'm not paying them, so I understand withholding features. That said, I keep looking at the Matrix ecosystem, and I think the only thing keeping me at MM is the switching cost at this point (not being able to export messages is an effective lock-in feature, though rather user-unfriendly if you ask me).
- yu-carm-kror 4y agoYou can export all message types and none of them require any special licensing or payment: https://docs.mattermost.com/manage/bulk-export-tool.html https://docs.mattermost.com/manage/bulk-export-tool.html.
- karaterobot 4y agoThat document shows how you can export private channels, but not private conversations. For example, if you and a friend have a DM conversation with each other, that is not exportable using that tool.
- agnivade 4y agoSearch in SQL databases is a tough beast to get it right. And given that we support MySQL and Postgres both, it gets even harder to support quirks of both of them. In enterprise editions, the only addition is Elasticsearch. But in our open-source version, we do have support for https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve https://github.com/blevesearch/bleve. Although, it's in beta, we have a lot of customers using it. I am wondering if you have tried using it and didn't like it?
- karaterobot 4y agoI have been trying over several versions to get bleve to work, using MM installation guides and forums, but it's never successfully indexed anything.