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The pricing is insane. Maybe it makes sense for some businesses (we have it at work for sure), but I'm in 9 Slack workspaces currently, and only 3 of those are

by rekoil 2y ago

The pricing is insane. Maybe it makes sense for some businesses (we have it at work for sure), but I'm in 9 Slack workspaces currently, and only 3 of those are connected to any sort of business use.

jerlam 2y ago
Slack doesn't seem to have any pricing options for a general community, only for clearly defined business groups with clear onboarding/offboarding procedures. They charge by the user, by the month, so any kind of publicly open group seems impossible to fund.
paxys 2y ago
Slack has never been a solution for hobby groups and open source communities and the like, but people love to keep using it as such and then blame the pricing model for not working for them.
dvngnt_ 2y ago
why not use a self-hosted solution or discord?
- savanaly 2y ago
  Because we want people to actually use it.
  - celdon25 2y ago
    Plenty of people use Discord, for better or worse. There are lots of slack communities that have little to no activity as well, so that’s an unfair judgement.
    - rekoil 2y ago
      Same thing will happen with Discord eventually for sure, or something similar at least.
      - celdon25 2y ago
        so?
- PenguinCoder 2y ago
  Mattermost is way better than Discord or even slack, for this type of communications.