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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1883 points JustSkyfall | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.69s | source
1. hkt ◴[18 Sep 25 03:07 UTC] No.45284774[source]▶
PSA: IRC has been around for decades. Longer than most HN readers. XMPP isn't far behind. Self host. Be in control of your data and your costs.
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2. okcoder1 ◴[18 Sep 25 05:46 UTC] No.45285904[source]▶
IRC would not be useful for Hack Club as it's only text. Hack Club requires software that allows us to upload images, create canvases and most importantly, call with others.
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3. buovjaga ◴[18 Sep 25 07:05 UTC] No.45286476[source]▶
Not saying there's a turnkey solution at the moment for your exact needs, but even with your current $5k/year budget something interesting could be built with the "modern IRC stack" that https://irctoday.com/ uses, for example. Call support would have to be done by integrating Jitsi, but it's been done before as seen in https://github.com/kiwiirc/plugin-conference and https://convos.chat/doc/features#video-support