Mattermost vs Slack

[AndyWhite247 (Andy White)]

Really struggling with Slack when using it for Long form discussion. Came across this great article And as a result we are going to download Mattermost on our AWS and give it a go

At present we are cobbling it together by using slack and if we want a proper threaded discussion we pop over to Google Groups.

This discussion software seems to be head and shoulders above Google Groups (I started using it back in 2010 and it looks as if Google have spent zero on it!

Would appreciate some comments from the community about our experiences

Many thanks

[JamesS (James Suddaby)]

Hi Andy - looks good

[AndyWhite247 (Andy White)]

Just going to try tagging @JamesS to see what happens your end (tagging not supported in GoogleGroups) PS like the side box that pops up

[JamesS (James Suddaby)]

Yes @AndyWhite247 - I enabled notifications, got the pop-up. Nice

[AndyWhite247 (Andy White)]

Just enabled notification and got a pop up on the Mac. I wonder if it would also work on mobile? Just downloaded the Discourse App and will have a play

[AndyWhite247 (Andy White)]

Is this a private reply?

feel i’m missing out…isnt that what we are trying to achieve…a phobia ?

not sure what you mean Mark??

[davidtaylorhq (David Taylor)]

I think you might be confused between Mattermost & Discourse here. The software you are reading this on right now is called Discourse.

Mattermost is closer in functionality to Slack.

Discourse is closer in functionality to Google Groups (but like 10000x more awesome)

But hey, why pick one when you can use both and integrate them together

[SOLVED] Discourse integration with Mattermost

Hi everyone. I’m participating in the Google Summer of Code programme, working on Discourse (the software that you’re reading this in!). I’ve built a plugin for Discourse called discourse-chat-integration. It allows for “cross-posting” posts on Discourse into a number of different “instant messaging” applications, including Mattermost. This is great way to combine the long-form, ‘archive-ready’ conversations you may have on Discourse, with the “quick fire”, real-time nature of instant m…

[AndyWhite247 (Andy White)]

Many thanks @davidtaylorhq, not sure if this is a reply just to you our a reply to the whole forum? Your post ref Discourse intergration with Mattermost looks incredibly timely. Understand the difference between Mattermost and Discourse. We are just riffing over here while our Top Tech gets it loaded onto our AWS We will now load your plug-in as well!

[davidtaylorhq (David Taylor)]

@AndyWhite247

not sure if this is a reply just to you our a reply to the whole forum

That was a reply to the topic, so everyone can see it. If you want to send someone a private message, you’d click their avatar and then click the “message” button

[AndyWhite247 (Andy White)]

Got it, many thanks. So you can then use the quote function to provide a tad more context

@davidtaylorhq

That was a reply to the topic, so everyone can see it. If you want to send someone a private message, you’d click their avatar and then click the “message” button