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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: 0.404s | 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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Freak_NL ◴[18 Sep 25 08:32 UTC] No.45287083[source]▶
Is it? We've been using it self-hosted for years, together with GitLab. It meets all the needs of a small company, and is very pleasant to work with for devs too (i.e., basic Markdown just works, so you can post anything from code to log snippets in a sensible manner).

Setting up Mattermost was one of the best decisions we've made with regards to our tools.

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wltr ◴[18 Sep 25 09:03 UTC] No.45287321[source]▶
What about the software nudging you to subscribe to their enterprise plans here and there? Did you turned off this, or just ignore?
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adastra22 ◴[18 Sep 25 09:30 UTC] No.45287521[source]▶
I've literally never seen this in my self-hosted Mattermost. Where do you see it?
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1. wltr ◴[18 Sep 25 13:43 UTC] No.45289612[source]▶
I afraid I nuked my installation already. There were insignificant features, like for their Playbook (or what the name is), where you are offered some extra feature, that goes with the enterprise plan. If I chose my self-hosted instance for some reason, I don’t really need that advertising in my interface all the time. I can understand the reason it’s there, but I don’t like it still.