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Hey there,

I'm on the search for an alternative to Mattermost for a small institution I'm working with. Mattermost was the strongest contender for our needs, yet they changed their policy regarding self-hosted instances. The factor that killed it for us, is the hard cap on 250 registered users, as we potentially might need to commodate more than that.

Rocket.Chat has similar caps.

We found Zulip, and it seems as it might be what we are looking for, but we haven't tested yet. Nonetheless, I wanted to address this community, as you may have another good idea?

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[–] SrMono@feddit.org 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity would matrix work for you?

[–] Harald_im_Netz@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, if it is too complicated for me – it will be too complicated for 95 % of our potential “users”.

[–] SrMono@feddit.org 1 points 4 months ago

Having used and administered both, I would put it on the same level with mattermost