Mattermost is an

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, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and third party application integrations. It is designed as an internal chat for organisations and companies, and mostly markets itself as an open-source alternative to Slack and

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History

The code was originally proprietary, as Mattermost was used as an internal chat tool inside SpinPunch, a game developer studio, but was later open-sourced. The 1.0 was released on October 2, 2015. The project is maintained and developed by Mattermost Inc. The company generates funds by selling support services and additional features that are not in the open-source edition. It was also integrated into

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as "GitLab Mattermost".

Features

In the media, Mattermost is mostly regarded as an alternative to the more popular Slack. Aside from the in-browser version, there are desktop clients for

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and

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and mobile apps for

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and Android. As of version 6.0 Mattermost includes kanban board and

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features integrated in main interface.

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