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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2071 points JustSkyfall | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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realityfactchex ◴[18 Sep 25 02:22 UTC] No.45284350[source]▶
Since you're a nonprofit that teaches coding, it could be a great time to consider self-hosting a FOSS chat tool.

Suggestions: Campfire [0] or Zulip [1].

Also, if the data in chat is being held hostage, the org might be using chat wrong. Right tool for right purpose. If starting over, perhaps consider if it would make sense to put that documentation or whatever it is that will get "lost" from Slack into a wiki or repo or other appropriate tool?

Big empathy, though. It must be pretty crushing. But that is why serious geeks have long been for FOSS.

  [0] https://once.com/campfire (recently became FOSS) 
  [1] https://zulip.com
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1. renewiltord ◴[18 Sep 25 02:36 UTC] No.45284499[source]▶
The post says they're moving to Mattermost and has a screenshot of the same.
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2. realityfactchex ◴[18 Sep 25 03:09 UTC] No.45284795[source]▶
Yeah, I must have read the whole article except that sentence, which is buried at the very end, after all the images.

If those any of those 4 screenshot snippets are of Mattermost, it's not very clear. All I see is screenshots of what appears to be Slack.

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3. renewiltord ◴[18 Sep 25 04:32 UTC] No.45285430[source]▶
They are indeed of Slack but the 4th says: “As you have probably read, Hack Club is moving to Mattermost”. But not here to litigate it. It’s easy to miss if you skim.