As the operational hub for defense, government and technology enterprises, Mattermost is committed to connecting technical organizations and their people, processes, and tools for mission-critical work. Mattermost v8.0 is focused on increasing your team’s operational efficiency, expanding our ecosystem, and improving our platform.

In the fast-paced and interconnected business landscape, we inhabit today, collaboration emerges as a formidable catalyst for organizational success. Cultivating a vibrant work culture that embraces collaboration goes beyond the surface level of teamwork, it fuels innovation, sparks creativity, and enhances problem-solving capabilities. When a diverse group of individuals comes together within an atmosphere of trust and open communication, something extraordinary takes place.

Imagine waking up every morning with a sense of dread. You feel the weight of an endless to-do list weighing down on you. Diving headfirst into work, you push yourself to be productive at all costs. Sleep becomes a luxury. Self-care becomes a distant memory, and your relationships begin to suffer. This toxic productivity makes it pervasive in our fast-paced and demanding world. Toxic productivity is the unyielding pursuit of constant busyness.

If you’re a developer building a web or mobile application, you know that there are times when you want to message your users when they’re in the app. It might be information about a new feature, a billing update, or something that requires action from the user. That’s where in-app notifications via an inbox come in. They allow you to deliver key messages directly to your users and can be combined with other notification methods like push and email.

Sending timely targeted email notifications greatly affects how your audience engages with your product. For these notifications to be effective at notifying your users of key events, you need to schedule when they are sent so that they are delivered at the right time.

OZG (Onlinezugangsgesetz) is the latest example of a European-based law that aims to improve the quality of public services for citizens. The German Online Access Act is yet to be fully implemented, but the implications are far-reaching. European countries often set the trends and standards with their legislation: will there be a spillover effect, and will other countries follow the German lead? This remains to be seen in the following years.

I can’t believe it but it’s been a year since we last updated you about the progress of Element Call, our Matrix-based VoIP product. We haven’t been resting on our laurels though, a huge amount of work has been going on over the last twelve months, and today we bring an absolutely massive new update in Beta 3 of Element Call.

While marketing-related notifications are often handled by marketing automation platforms, engineering teams require notification infrastructure that is designed for automated product-driven notifications. This might be a simple SMS password reset notification or new user onboarding email sequence. Or it may be a more complex notification tied to a feature of the application, such as an approval request sequence.