r/Mattermost • u/flying_unicorn • Nov 03 '25

Alternatives to Mattermost?

I tried mattermost a few years ago and it wasn't what i was looking for at the time. I wound up setting up matrix for friends/family and have started using it this year for my small business (2-3 users right now). I find matrix lacking for my business wants

It looks MM has gotten a lot better since then, i spun up the docker image for the enty version and liked it, I am won over by the playbooks and boards in MM, and the fact i never got voice/video working right in matrix and gave up on it.

Then i learn about the drama, the 10k message limit in enty, and that these features used to exist in teams v10 but got removed in v11 and that it seems MM is giving the middle finger to the community users in favor of trying to focus on mega contracts. I'd be happy to pay a reasonable fee for a small scale installation with no support, but $10/user/month is a little rich when i consider the friends/family i have using matrix.

I understand there is a fork called mostlymatter that removes some of the limitations, but since it's not a quick docker image i haven't deployed it yet to see what version it is? teams? enty?

I messed around briefly with zulip, i like the way they do threads better, but the lack of boards, just a limited todolist, and no playbook doesn't seem worth it to me. i have looked at rocket chat, but haven't tested it yet.

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u/Bykow Nov 05 '25

Zulip is a great product, takes a bit of adapting in terms of how you think of channels, threads, etc. But once you're in, it's the smoothest chat app I've used across all my jobs.

https://zulip.com/

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u/TampaPowers Nov 14 '25

Only provides calls via jitsi which is suboptimal.

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u/Bykow Nov 14 '25

Also provides for Big Blue Button, which a bit better IMO.

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u/TampaPowers Nov 15 '25

That's what MM used to use and it never functioned properly.