Even before the virus forced us all inside and online, messaging was taking over the world. It’s how many of us shared news, collaborated with colleagues, and — most importantly — kept in touch with friends and family. As with all things digital, the pandemic simply accelerated the inevitable. It also showed us that messaging was made for customer service. Customers are reaching out for help more than ever before, and messaging is their channel of choice.

Earlier this month, Elastic announced that there would be upcoming changes to its open source licensing. These changes do not affect on-prem deployments of Elasticsearch. Since Mattermost Enterprise Edition uses Elasticsearch in its on-prem deployments, we felt it important to explore the reasoning behind Elastic’s decision, how the new license terms are different, and why there will be no impact on Mattermost users as a result of these changes.

Future Forum releases Q4 results of remote employee experience index data

In this series, I explain how to use Twitch EventSub and Courier to automatically send notifications to multiple destinations – Slack, Discord, and more – when your Twitch stream goes live. In part one, we built a Node.js app using Express.js to accept events from Twitch EventSub. Now, in part two, we’re going to listen for our event and trigger a notification using Courier.

After being ranked one of Capterra’s top 20 most popular Live Chat and Remote Work softwares in 2020, we’re incredibly happy to be featured on the ISG Provider Lens™ Digital Workplace of the Future report for 2020! The study highlights an overview of the top players in each defined country and market.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of Environments in Courier. You can now create, preview, and troubleshoot your notifications in a test environment before going live. With support for two environments – Test and Production – you no longer have to worry about accidentally sending a notification to your users before you’re ready.

Mattermost has always been a remote-first company. Building a product that safely and securely allows our teams to communicate with each other regardless of geography or distance is the cornerstone of our philosophy on working remotely. Over the last year, the world of working online from home changed dramatically. Many people have been forced to move into a working situation they might not have been familiar with.