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It really is time to start a push to move open communities to open source software. Running a whole bunch of open communities out of slack and discord has alway

• james_pm 6y ago
  The message history is all there, held hostage by Slack. Clearly it's not a burden for them to store it or they would simply delete everything past 10,000 messages rather than still storing it and reminding me frequently that they have it if I ever decide to pay.
  • RyJones 6y ago
    If you’re an owner of a slack instance, you can export all of the history without paying.
    • ReactiveJelly 6y ago
      Export to what? Can I import it into Matrix? I assumed all these SaaSS products are built like carnivorous plants - The spikes only point in. I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless.
      • notatoad 6y ago
        I don't know about matrix, but you can import your slack archive into mattermost. So whatever the export is clearly well-structured enough to be useful. https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html?highlight=slack https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html?hi...
        • RyJones 6y ago
          JSON[0]. Here is the export I did for my employer, Hyperledger. [0]: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive
      • maccard 6y ago
        Here [0] is a link to the slack export documentation. Slack not providing an export to the provider of your choice isn't necessarily slacks issue, it's Matrix's issue. > I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless. I don't think you can infer that all SAAS platforms lock your data because you had a failed attempt with another such tool once. [0] https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-...
      • RyJones 6y ago
        JSON: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive
• himujjal 6y ago
  What are the good open source alternatives out there? DuckDuckGo'd a few ones. But not convincing ones.
  • ikbenkenobi 6y ago
    Self-hosted Mattermost?
  • adioe3 6y ago
    I've used https://rocket.chat/ https://rocket.chat/ in one company and it was perfectly fine.
  • BiteCode_dev 6y ago
    I was surprised how much I liked zulip. The threading model and the policy of few notifications by default speaks to me. The UI is not the most modern but the software is productive and friendly for a chat application, particularly when you look for an old information burried in the history.
  • encom 6y ago
    IRC.
• dmitriid 6y ago
  There are very few, if any, opensource alternatives that provide the same level of convenience: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093106 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093106 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093556 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25093556
• cobbzilla 6y ago
  Zulip [1] is free/open source and arguably has better usability. Bubble [2] runs our day-to-day chat on Zulip and it's worked really well. [1] https://zulip.org/ https://zulip.org/ [2] https://git.bubblev.org/bubblev/bubble https://git.bubblev.org/bubblev/bubble