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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1502 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.227s | source
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nodar86 ◴[18 Sep 25 06:47 UTC] No.45286333[source]▶
Hey! I have an open-source project for browsing an exported slack archive, it may be useful to you so you can see and search the history: https://github.com/pkarolyi/slack-archive-browser

I haven’t maintained it in a while since it works for us, but PRs are welcome :)

A good first one would be adding non-slack authentication as currently it only supports Slack openid for logging in, but it uses next-auth and should be simple to extend

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preisschild ◴[18 Sep 25 07:12 UTC] No.45286522[source]▶
Mattermost also has a tutorial to import your slack messages

https://docs.mattermost.com/administration-guide/onboard/mig...

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danielheath ◴[18 Sep 25 07:40 UTC] No.45286735[source]▶
I have been running a Mattermost instance with a few thousand users for years now.

It really hasn’t required any maintenance at all beyond incrementing the version number.

They are starting to tighten the screws (showing admins a warning if you have over 2500 users), but it’s still looking good for a few years before I need to act on that.

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1. pcthrowaway ◴[18 Sep 25 08:35 UTC] No.45287110[source]▶
Notably, Mattermost can be forked to a community edition if the team behind it does anything too user-hostile. It's a fine balance for them to keep their "team edition" nudging users to a supported edition without being so annoying that users are motivated to make that community edition.

I have other reasons to want a community edition personally, but sadly they've been successful enough thus far that there isn't enough interest from other developers to make it happen.