@claudius @duponin I have to disagree completely. I don't think Mattermost is at all suitable for something like a hackerspace because there are only two user types: completely privileged and completely unprivileged. In my personal opinion, the inability to do something as simple as appointing a couple moderators without giving them full access to administer the entire server kills Mattermost for medium-sized groups.

Small groups where you can't pay and don't need mods, sure. Big groups that need mods and can afford to pay, sure. Medium groups where you need mods but can't afford to pay, :akko_shrug:

Locking such a basic feature behind a paywall is a _really_ shitty move imo.

And that was the situation with XMPP five or ten years ago, sure. Today, most modern, “mainstream” XMPP clients support everything you would expect a chat client to, except calls, but even that's becoming much more common.