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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1806 points JustSkyfall | 7 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.313s | source | bottom
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nextworddev ◴[18 Sep 25 01:55 UTC] No.45284061[source]▶
First time hearing about Mattermost. Good thing I found this article
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murukesh_s ◴[18 Sep 25 01:59 UTC] No.45284096[source]▶
We replaced Slack with Mattermost for one of the teams - and guess what we don't miss Slack there. Threads, push notifications everything works fine and you get more features at least compared to the free version of Slack
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1. getpokedagain ◴[18 Sep 25 02:01 UTC] No.45284134[source]▶
So is the winning strategy here to pick anything but the top dogs in the game and hope they never make the big leagues and start behaving like shit? Mattermost just seems like another risky dependency
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2. dinkleberg ◴[18 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45284172[source]▶
You can self-host Mattermost. It seems that is likely what they are going to be doing from the article since they talked about how important it is to own your data.
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3. 3eb7988a1663 ◴[18 Sep 25 02:21 UTC] No.45284340[source]▶
It always felt weird to me that glorified IRC could command such a price premium. Admittedly, a bunch of engineering was put in place to make things work, but it was still just humans chatting with each other for what is probably tiny amounts of data storage.
4. twarge ◴[18 Sep 25 02:22 UTC] No.45284351[source]▶
We used Mattermost but eventually started getting annoyed by the nags to upgrade in the free version. Zulip is has been far better.
5. edoceo ◴[18 Sep 25 02:42 UTC] No.45284562[source]▶
And the self hosted is, effectively, just `docker up`. Saved us $1000s
6. mindwok ◴[18 Sep 25 03:13 UTC] No.45284826[source]▶
Anything you can self-host is mostly safe, because at the very least you have access to the raw data and can move elsewhere if you need to.
7. p2detar ◴[18 Sep 25 07:15 UTC] No.45286536[source]▶
I missed that part in the article, but yeah - self-host or nothing. We are self-hosting as well, although our group is not a large one.