I find the planned response for "Enterprise Edition" ONLY, absurd. Sure backing on your Manifesto about teams is a great fallback (for the response), But your neglecting the teams that have to work with other entities and new potential teammates.

This feature is basically already possible if you make all your "Channels" -> "Private Groups"... So what are you gaining by not letting this be a real feature?

You are losing startups / small businesses from adopting this platform to run their "Team" because of this real world scenario.

Enterprise Edition should focus on TRUE Enterprise requirements and not hinder the startup / small business "Teams".

E20 only? Really. Why isn't this an E10 feature? I am really happy to not get the super fancy large anterprise features but this makes me very sad. It effectively means small businesses can't have temporary contractors / external clients etc on mattermost.

We'd like this too. Need more compelling things to ditch slack - lesser cost of a product is definitely a huge motivator. Mattermost keeps talking about additional "value" but how about cutting cost, because remember, self-hosted means adding to additional IT Ops costs (incl. time and effort) so balance your costs please

Shame this is planned only for enterprise edition. I would prefer couple of paid Slack features to be free as biggest Mattermost driver. If you compare like-to-like Mattermost has terrible applications. Lets have enterprise features like SSO, certificates, video & audio conference as paid but couple of niche features for free compared to Slack.

According to the roadmap and jira, single channel guest accounts are planned for the enterprize edition: https://about.mattermost.com/direction/ https://mattermost.atlassian.net/browse/PLT-3636

Any chance for this feature to materialize after a year ?
We are about to pay for an integration with project management software which we use, but need to separate company insiders from contractors (reduce contractors view of all channels and users only to those in which they participate/share with).

Definitely an important feature for us, as we usually open project channels in Slack which we give access to to our customer and others involved in the project. Creating a whole new team for this purpose is a bit too much.

Sure it will help for light users and external users. Keen to see this added to Mattermost !

Additionally it should be possible to en-/disable direct messages for users + posting in channels. We want to allow a view guys to see a view of our channels and also allow them to only view some of those channels, they should not be allowed to post something there.

This can also be useful for customers/clients/externals, allowing them in so you can communicate with them and more easily share files or ideas, but without letting them roam into seeing things they shouldn't.