Kind of wild watching this open source chat run out the open source corporate endgame but I never thought they would enact as severe user limits as they now have done for the free self-hosted plan.
25 might be fine for family chats but for non-profits or event-based chats; the latter my thing where a handful of people coordinate throughout the year and then 30 to 50 (more?) are around during the event week, this is the end.
I thought for awhile that the 25 limit was going to apply to a free-hosted-by-RocketChat basic plan but 6.5 self-hosted has the limit as far as I can see so… there we go.
My options are:
- Stick with the 5x series. I never moved to 6x at all when they started adding app/plugin limits for the free versions - that kinda made me a bit sus of what was to come.
- Mattermost, which is fine but I’d lose 8+ years of events. Someone has a converter but right now that’s a non-starter due to the size of our loadout and the basic early-days nature of the converter. Could always keep the RC instance going for archive purposes I suppose.
- Matrix, which honestly, tempting…
Looking for anyone to chime in with other options/opinions if they see/know any.
EDIT: A user post suggests upgrading RC to the 6x line forces a license change that puts you on the 25 user limit path but it can be reverted back to the Community Edition with a conf change. Would still like to hear your opinions though as RC is clearly on a pre-determined path at this point.
EDIT #2: Just an overall thanks! Lot’s of great responses both on my stated options and new ones I did not know about. Keep’em coming!
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We have used MM with now 450 users and Gitlab SSO cost free for years now at work. Can highly recommend it.
Rocket Chat was really never acceptable for us because of 2 main reasons:
- all users on the server are in „1“ team (there is no concept of „sub-servers“ or teams as in Mattermost.
- the cost free push notification limit was always waaaay too low for more than only a couple users.