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by temp 1462 days ago
I don't think we are missing the point, we were looking for a Slack alternative and found one. They charged a bit to give you push notifications, now they charge more of it. If not having push notifications were an option for us, we'd have simply downgraded.
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We've been using the free (Team plan) self hosted edition with push notification for free. Am I missing something?

https://docs.mattermost.com/deploy/mobile-hpns.html

you can also just host your own push proxy service using their open source code...

https://docs.mattermost.com/deploy/mobile-hpns.html#host-you...

Then you also need to build and distribute Android and iOS apps for your employees. Congrats, you now have a significantly larger project than "put Mattermost on a server and update it occasionally".
I am using it on both cloud-hosted (work) and self-hosted (friends chat) servers.

Push notifications work fine, the mattermost app that's already on the android and iOS stores work fine, they have done for the 3-4 years I've been using it.

Self hosting Mattermost community edition with the Mattermost apps in Google play and apple app store works fine.