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You can set it up without GitLab via http://www.mattermost.org/download/

Only the docker install is pretty easy to do, doing it from source is pretty tedious, one of the reasons we will bundle it with GitLab.

It seems inspired by Slack but we think it is different enough and it will grow more different over time.

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"different enough and it will grow more different over time"

Can you elaborate more? Don't mean any disrespect, but this seems like a complete copy-paste of their interface.

I agree they do look similar. Obviously none of the code was copy pasted and I hope the products will diverge further over time. GitLab started out with a pretty similar look but by now it found its own look.

Obvious UI clone is obvious.

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