We have a problem since the new upgrade. "10.000-message limit reached. Messages sent before 26. September 2025 are hidden -Restore Access" appeared. so the messages before that date can not be acc...
Mattermost user here, I self-host an instance for friends and family (and their children).
To upgrade and discover I’d lost access to the message history on my own instance was infuriating. I’m investigating alternatives right now.
So far Zulip seems reasonable - although Google and especially Apple being shits about push notifications means you can’t self-host push notification servers 🙄 So I’m considering forgoing push notifications altogether and leaning on email notifications instead.
the open source notification stack is forming around UnifiedPush and ntfy.sh. multiple things use it already: matrix server+clients, molly for signal with mollysocket, DavX5, ironwolf, … best part you can easily use it for your own purposes too. for me it’s working reliably.
you could check if zulip has a unifiedpush connector. or if it doesn’t, you coud follow what mollysocket does and write one that presents itself to the server as a client
Have you explored what it takes to self-host a notification server? I explored Zulip, and it looks similar, but I haven’t explored the notification server yet.
Mattermost user here, I self-host an instance for friends and family (and their children).
To upgrade and discover I’d lost access to the message history on my own instance was infuriating. I’m investigating alternatives right now.
So far Zulip seems reasonable - although Google and especially Apple being shits about push notifications means you can’t self-host push notification servers 🙄 So I’m considering forgoing push notifications altogether and leaning on email notifications instead.
the open source notification stack is forming around UnifiedPush and ntfy.sh. multiple things use it already: matrix server+clients, molly for signal with mollysocket, DavX5, ironwolf, … best part you can easily use it for your own purposes too. for me it’s working reliably.
you could check if zulip has a unifiedpush connector. or if it doesn’t, you coud follow what mollysocket does and write one that presents itself to the server as a client
Were you using the enterprise install without a license or team edition install? I’m on team edition and haven’t upgraded to v11 yet.
Have you explored what it takes to self-host a notification server? I explored Zulip, and it looks similar, but I haven’t explored the notification server yet.