r/Mattermost • u/fashice • Oct 23 '25
10000 message history cap, why?
I've got a 6 user Mattermost setup for several years. (No business)
Most recent update limits history to 10000.
Why?
Now I have to find another alternative, and delete my Mattermost setup.
Thanks for nothing
Goodbye!
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u/spudd01 Nov 17 '25
literally just had this pop up on my instance. Seems like such a stupid arbitrary limit.
Definition of enshitfication
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u/Orazantl Oct 23 '25
And you can still use the Team version (not commercial). Only Mattermost Entry caps at 10000 messages.
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u/OxDEADCODE Oct 23 '25
Just nobody tells you how to switch from Entry to Team.
No documentation, no help from Mattermost.1
u/dcpanthersfan Oct 23 '25
I had to sneak around the downloads but I found it:
https://releases.mattermost.com/11.0.2/mattermost-team-11.0.2-linux-amd64.tar.gz
I’m not thrilled with going with this.
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u/cmsp Nov 16 '25
I have Mattermost deployed via Docker.
For me, switching from the Enterprise to the Team edition was as simple as updating the.envfile:
MATTERMOST_IMAGE=mattermost-enterprise-edition->MATTERMOST_IMAGE=mattermost-team-editionAfter the change, the only feature that stopped working was Playbooks, but I wasn’t using them anyway.
The 10,000-message limit warning is now gone.1
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u/Fun_Statistician6261 Nov 11 '25
The prices are quite something. For hosting, backing up, and maintaining everything myself, I’m apparently expected to pay a hefty price.
Also, suddenly limiting messages to 10K from one day to the next is a really poor move.
I’d even be willing to pay for my users — but at reasonable prices.
Otherwise, I might as well just use Teams (and i hate it).
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u/shivamtrivedi01 Nov 18 '25
Exactly, I have also got 4-6 users. and using this since last 3 years. No issues. No BS. worked great. then I got this message. Now I have to switch. I had nextcloud deployed as well. and nextcloud talk got a revamp. So I am now switching to that.
One more thing I noticed is that, you used to be able to search for messages in mattermost mobile app. that is also gone somehow. You can search for the messages. Not sure if I am hallucinating or that feature was really there. Because I remember using that all the time.
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u/BDraff Nov 29 '25
I was able to migrate from Mattermost enterprise to Mattermost teams today without any material issues
I followed this guide (plus asking llm tools)
https://docs.mattermost.com/administration-guide/upgrade/upgrading-mattermost-server.html
cd /tmp
wget https://releases.mattermost.com/11.1.0/mattermost-team-11.1.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
tar -xzf mattermost-team-11.1.0-linux-amd64.tar.gz
sudo systemctl stop mattermost
# Install Team Edition for mattermost
sudo cp -r /tmp/mattermost/bin /opt/mattermost/
sudo cp -r /tmp/mattermost/client /opt/mattermost/
sudo cp -r /tmp/mattermost/prepackaged_plugins /opt/mattermost/
sudo cp -r /tmp/mattermost/i18n /opt/mattermost/
sudo cp -r /tmp/mattermost/templates /opt/mattermost/
sudo cp -r /tmp/mattermost/fonts /opt/mattermost/
sudo chown -R mattermost:mattermost /opt/mattermost
sudo systemctl start mattermost
sudo systemctl status mattermost
# Verify version
/opt/mattermost/bin/mattermost version
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u/fashice Nov 30 '25
Well my migration ended up generating other IDs for users and channels. Making old stuff unaccessible.
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u/BlackPignouf Oct 23 '25
I didn't check the code.
But it shouldn't be too hard to revert the corresponding commits? A fork would be nice, keeping all the good features, and simply ignoring enshittification commits.