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Julie Delanoy
@syswarren · Design with @wearetm 😻
I like the idea of an Open Source Slack but I'm not sure I understand.
Mattermost has the same UI and UX (also the same font, from what I can see on the screenshots) as Slack. It lets you build your own features and you can host it wherever you want but it's not made by Slack, right ?
Did Mattermost work on this project with the Slack team?
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Ian Tien
@iantien · CEO, Mattermost / SpinPunch
Hi @syswarren, we tried to carefully study different UI in designing Mattermost, including HipChat and Facebook in addition to Slack.
We do consider ourselves an "open source, on-premises Slack-alternative" because we believe there's a community that wants such a product, and that they're underserved right now,
That said, I think if you install the application and run it I hope you'll see there's more to our design than the two or three screenshots that were in our first blog post.
For example, here's an early spec of the Mattermost "App Center", which is in progress right now: https://docs.google.com/document...
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Mike Rundle
@flyosity · Working on Treeo for iPhone!
@iantien @syswarren Slack was not just carefully studied, it was ripped off. I can't believe that Product Hunt would feature such a blatant clone. As a designer and a product maker, this makes me sick. I've had my work ripped off many, many times over the years, and I bet the Metalab and Slack team's right now are just fuming if not talking to their lawyers about how to sue Mattermost for violating U.S. trade dress laws.
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P A S Q U A L E
@pasql · Partner at Thinko
@flyosity Yeah, this is a blatant rip off. I'd be ashamed to be involved in a project like this.
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Javin Ladish
@javinladish · Designer
I second both @flyosity and @pasql 's statements. With the naked eye your design is a total copy of Slack, lest a few color changes.
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