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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1720 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.196s | source
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donatj ◴[18 Sep 25 02:25 UTC] No.45284391[source]▶
> Slack transitioned us from their free nonprofit plan to a $5,000/year arrangement, we happily paid. It was reasonable

Their definition of reasonable and mine are... not aligned.

Just self-host an IRC or Jabber server for crying out loud.

For a single $5,000 I'll personally teach each of your users to use it.

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varenc ◴[18 Sep 25 03:12 UTC] No.45284820[source]▶
Doesn't an IRC server have no concept of chat history? Not really comparable. Setting up the server is the easy part, it's migrating their integrations, updating docs, copying over history, educating users, etc, that is the hard part.
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1. belthesar ◴[18 Sep 25 03:29 UTC] No.45284966[source]▶
This doesn't address everything, but I thought I'd chime on specifically on the chat history question. It's still early days for support from most IRCd's, but IRCv3 has been slowly bringing protocol level support for many of the same features that Slack, Teams (chat), Mattermost, etc. have, including chat history support. It's likely not reasonable for the public IRC networks to ever support history, but for a self hosted IRC server to service your team/company/community/whatever, it would be totally feasible to connect and receive scrollback.