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Friends vs Mattermost: What are the differences?

Friends: Like Slack except P2P, offline friendly, and open source. Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users; Mattermost: Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

Friends and Mattermost can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.

Friends and Mattermost are both open source tools. Mattermost with 15.4K GitHub stars and 3.14K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Friends with 3.05K GitHub stars and 356 GitHub forks.

Decisions about Friends and Mattermost
Christopher Semmler

Mattermost sports higher performance, uses Postgres, is a pure server side application not using up too much of system resources on the client side, and gives an overall enterprise grade impression in general.

Updates go smooth without a hassle, everything is organised logically, and the integration with the OS is absolutely stable. Apart from that, the underlying runtimes and code are mature, proven and stable.

The developers are maybe a bit more cautious in regard to introducing new features, but they maintain a stable experience, not breaking the codebase in order to hastily implement bells and whistles, which are not yet ready for production. Documentation and debugging are fantastic, so running this in enterprise production environment is absolutely approved of.

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Pros of Friends
Pros of Mattermost
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    • 60
      Open source
    • 41
      On-premise deployment
    • 26
      Free
    • 22
      Built using golang
    • 21
      Fast and easy to use
    • 14
      Docker image provided for easy setup
    • 14
      Full text search
    • 12
      Built using react
    • 11
      Supports multiple teams
    • 11
      Search and data archiving
    • 11
      Very professional
    • 8
      Keeps us focused, effective, concise
    • 7
      Clean and simple look
    • 7
      Integration with Gitlab
    • 7
      Webhooks support
    • 6
      Well documented
    • 6
      Use #Hashtags like Twitter
    • 3
      Import Slack logs
    • 3
      Reactive community and ease of use
    • 2
      Self managed data
    • 2
      On-premises Deployment
    • 2
      Secure
    • 1
      Markdown support
    • 1
      On premise installation
    • 1
      Kanban
    • 1
      Checklists
    • 1
      Slack-compatible integrations
    • 1
      Easy webhook integration

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    Cons of Friends
    Cons of Mattermost
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      • 2
        Less integrations and plugins than slack
      • 2
        Many basic features are enterprise only
      • 2
        Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise
      • 1
        Basic permissions only in enterprise edition
      • 1
        Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB

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      What is Friends?

      Friends is like Slack except P2P, offline friendly and open source. We transmit data over secure channels and authenticate messages. It's made by a group of open source developers who are motivated to make a public chat platform that is easy to use but isn't centrally controlled, and where data is owned by its users.

      What is Mattermost?

      Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.

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      What are some alternatives to Friends and Mattermost?
      Slack
      Imagine all your team communication in one place, instantly searchable, available wherever you go. That’s Slack. All your messages. All your files. And everything from Twitter, Dropbox, Google Docs, Asana, Trello, GitHub and dozens of other services. All together.
      Microsoft Teams
      See content and chat history anytime, including team chats with Skype that are visible to the whole team. Private group chats are available for smaller group conversations.
      HipChat
      HipChat is a hosted private chat service for your company or team. Invite colleagues to share ideas and files in persistent group chat rooms. Get your team off AIM, Google Talk, and Skype — HipChat was built for business.
      Telegram
      Users can send messages and exchange photos, videos, stickers, audio and files of any type. It provides instant messaging, simple, fast, secure and synced across all your devices.
      RocketChat
      Rocket.Chat is a Web Chat Server, developed in JavaScript, using the Meteor fullstack framework. It is a great solution for communities and companies wanting to privately host their own chat service or for developers looking forward to build and evolve their own chat platforms.
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