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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2071 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | 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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novatea ◴[18 Sep 25 02:32 UTC] No.45284470[source]▶
I'm in Hack Club, the team is moving all of us to self-hosted Mattermost. It is unfortunate that we have to re-code so many things though.
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_zoltan_ ◴[18 Sep 25 06:22 UTC] No.45286166[source]▶
mattermost is so so so clunky and uncomfortable, but hey, it's free...
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fransje26 ◴[18 Sep 25 09:25 UTC] No.45287494[source]▶
> mattermost is so so so clunky and uncomfortable

I'm quite sure they are open to pull-requests..

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1. _zoltan_ ◴[18 Sep 25 11:15 UTC] No.45288212[source]▶
yawn it's very, very old to tell people "do it better else shut up", which is exactly what you did.

people can have an opinion you know. this is my opinion.