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Great move to go with open source solutions like Mattermost and Discourse.

• bipson 7y ago
  This has tradition at CERN. I wonder why they even considered Facebook's offering, but I guess they do not dismiss proprietary solutions as well. Whatever works? Often enough they end up writing their own tools, if nothing fitting is available, and this might end up in the public domain (since AFAIK everything at CERN is basically paid for by the public, i.e. various member states, EU etc.).
  • ahartmetz 7y ago
    CERN IT administration is sometimes pretty idiotic. When I was still in physics, they replaced the well-loved homegrown Hypernews system with Microsoft something, a move welcomed by no one.
    • Aeolun 7y ago
      For once I would like a company I work for to move to a clearly better product... So far they seem to be searching for the worst of all worlds.