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I completely agree with you on slack for open-source projects. Especially with Mattermost being so good, there’s no good reason for a project to stick to Slack.
by zapita 7y ago
I completely agree with you on slack for open-source projects. Especially with Mattermost being so good, there’s no good reason for a project to stick to Slack.
- mdaniel 7y agoEven Mattermost doesn't offer free accounts to open source projects[1], and I think it's the _hosting_ that keeps projects off of almost any of the open source solutions. But one of the principals of Zulip almost always weighs in on discussions to point out that they have free hosting for any open source project that wants to use it: https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulipchatcom https://zulipchat.com/for/open-source/#free-hosting-at-zulip... and seem to even offer "import from slack" to make it less painful to switch. 1 = https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ https://mattermost.com/nonprofit/ asks for a $390 "setup fee" and only for 1,000 users