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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2339 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.2s | source
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p0w3n3d ◴[18 Sep 25 05:20 UTC] No.45285730[source]▶
We're using teams in my new company, which is awful for textual communication (lacks threads in chats, groups are more like old forums than new IM). I've been experimenting with self-hosted Mattermost but it seems that it also requires paid license in some situations (e.g. does not have groups for some reason in the free version).

I was unable to find another system. Would anyone recommend me something?

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1. nottorp ◴[18 Sep 25 10:36 UTC] No.45287976[source]▶
Yes, the sad thing is both teams and google whatever-they-call-the-chat suck for text based developer communication.

Threads? No pinning... no collapsible text snippets... no nothing.

No channels either.

Self hosted Matrix maybe? I remember i was on a project that was automatically mirroring the slack to a Matrix thing. Not sure how good the clients are though.