I’m referring to What's Next for Mattermost Boards
The quotes below sound like “Boards” is the next thing you will paywall for everyone. Please make clear what your plans are as our Mattermost Boards are very heavily used and I don’t want them to have to migrate in an outrageously short time because you announce this change just before the deadline (again)!
If your plan is to paywall Mattermost Boards please explain why. I don’t see any reason for that and paywalling stuff that was free to use for everyone is a really shitty move. But you know that already, you were criticized a lot in the last months because of a lot of such moves… By the way, this thread is still waiting for an officiall statement from Mattermost Inc.: Request for clarification from Mattermost Inc. on certain limitations introduced in v10
We’re focusing our efforts on exploring a best-in-class, native task management experience within Mattermost using message properties that allows for dynamic integration of cards across the platform that will eventually replace the Boards plugin.
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If you’d like to review early draft concepts and share your use cases with us, please contact your customer representative or reach out to us at product@mattermost.com.
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To give us time for this exploration, we won’t be adding new features to the Boards plugin, and the plugin has been removed from the in-product App Marketplace. We will continue to deliver critical bug fixes and security updates to ensure a reliable experience for Mattermost Enterprise customers.
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The open-source Focalboard project is available as a standalone solution for task and project management that doesn’t require a Mattermost server or an Mattermost Enterprise license.
And no, standalone Focalboard is no replacement for the integrated Boards plugin at all!