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Any good Slack alternative for communities? We have a big community and are looking for a chat client but there is no way that we would be willing to pay $5/use

Any good Slack alternative for communities? We have a big community and are looking for a chat client but there is no way that we would be willing to pay $5/user when we have up to 1000 users.

sytse 9y ago
Mattermost for multiple channels and gitter for single channel. Disclosure: GitLab ships with Mattermost and owns gitter
- Raphmedia 9y ago
  We really wanted to go with Gitter but limiting sign-up to Github and Twitter is a big no for us. :(
  - yuhong 9y ago
    I wonder how long before they add GitLab sign-in.
woodrowbarlow 9y ago
http://rocket.chat http://rocket.chat is an open-source self-hosted (or pay for hosting) slack clone. the client has some bugs, but it's totally usable.
notatoad 9y ago
Slack's free tier? if you don't need a full archive, it works fine.
- Raphmedia 9y ago
  Are the issues in this blogpost still present? https://medium.freecodecamp.com/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-we-deeply-regretted-it-391bcc714c81 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/so-yeah-we-tried-slack-and-w...
satsuma 9y ago
If the gaming branding doesn't matter, Discord works well with large communities.