Mattermost 5.1 has new features that will help your team accomplish even more: GIF selector – express yourself more clearly by adding the perfect GIFs for the occasion without leaving the Mattermost interface, Auto-linking plugin – link messages to other content automatically to increase productivity and empower workers to easily find information they need.

Gfycat is excited to announce our new integration with Mattermost that brings GIFs to workplace communication. Gfycat makes the Mattermost communication experience fun, visual and on-trend.

At Mattermost, we set out to build a platform that supports the world’s largest enterprises. To do that, Mattermost needs to be able to accommodate tens of thousands of simultaneous users, all of whom are using the platform in various ways at the same time.

Mattermost 5.0 has new features designed to improve productivity while enhancing security: Intercept and modify posts – customize Mattermost by creating plugins to automatically restrict, modify, censor and link posts, Advanced permissions – ensure everyone has the proper level of access with new system and team permissions schemes

(Editor’s note: This guest Mattermost Recipe was contributed by Brian Hopkins, a member of the Mattermost community.) Here’s the next installment of a new series of posts we’re doing on the Mattermost blog: Mattermost Recipes. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly.

A few customers mentioned they were looking at moving away from services such as Slack for their notifications and wanted to use Microsoft Teams instead, due to the integrated nature of the Office 365 platform. It sounded like a good thing for us to offer, so we now integrate with Office 365 and Microsoft Teams.