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Mattermost vs Openfire: What are the differences?
What is Mattermost? Open-source, self-hosted, Slack alternative. Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
What is Openfire? *An instant messaging and groupchat server *. It is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). It is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
Mattermost and Openfire can be categorized as "Group Chat & Notifications" tools.
Some of the features offered by Mattermost are:
- All your team communication in one place, searchable and accessible anywhere
- Slack-compatible, not Slack-limited. Imports Slack channels, users and themes. Offers Slack-compatible webhooks and integrations including Hubot, Jenkins, GitLab and others
- Self-host ready with System Console and IT admin tools for managing dozens of team sites. Installs with Linux binary, plus Docker, Heroku, AWS, Azure and Cloud Foundry options
On the other hand, Openfire provides the following key features:
- Instant messaging
- Rock-solid security and performance
- Easy to setup
Mattermost is an open source tool with 15.8K GitHub stars and 3.23K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Mattermost's open source repository on GitHub.
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Pros of Mattermost
- Open source60
- On-premise deployment41
- Free26
- Built using golang22
- Fast and easy to use21
- Docker image provided for easy setup14
- Full text search14
- Built using react12
- Supports multiple teams11
- Search and data archiving11
- Very professional11
- Keeps us focused, effective, concise8
- Clean and simple look7
- Integration with Gitlab7
- Webhooks support7
- Well documented6
- Use #Hashtags like Twitter6
- Import Slack logs3
- Reactive community and ease of use3
- Self managed data2
- On-premises Deployment2
- Secure2
- Markdown support1
- On premise installation1
- Kanban1
- Checklists1
- Slack-compatible integrations1
- Easy webhook integration1
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Cons of Mattermost
Cons of Openfire
Cons of Mattermost
- Less integrations and plugins than slack2
- Many basic features are enterprise only2
- Custom sidewide themes only in enterprise2
- Basic permissions only in enterprise edition1
- Not compatible with Telegram keys, which used by FSB1
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What is Mattermost?
Mattermost is modern communication from behind your firewall.
What is Openfire?
It is a real time collaboration (RTC) server. It uses the only widely adopted open protocol for instant messaging, XMPP (also called Jabber). It is incredibly easy to setup and administer, but offers rock-solid security and performance.
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What are some alternatives to Mattermost and Openfire?
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.
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.
Riot
Riot brings custom tags to all browsers. Think React + Polymer but with enjoyable syntax and a small learning curve.
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.
Gitter
Free chat rooms for your public repositories.
A bit like IRC only smarter. Chats for private repositories as well as organisations.