Here's what I wrote in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592195): "The reason for Slack's success is p

Here's what I wrote in 2019 (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21592195): "The reason for Slack's success is probably because it's a "turn key solution": you register your company, invite your employees, enter your CC, and you're good to go." "With a lot of these open solutions things are more complex. I think we should really focus on providing a good UX here if we want more adoption." This seems unchanged, or even worse. Arathorn recommended modular.im in a reply, which now redirects to https://element.io/pricing https://element.io/pricing, and "set up a server" just redirects to GitHub, and the only other option is "Talk to an expert" – yeah, no. Self-hosting is great but realistically, lots of people are just not interested, and that's fine too. And even if they are: having a simple option to quickly evaluate $the_thing is probably a good idea. This is of course in addition to all the technical problems outlined in this post, which I also reported in 2019: "opening https://riot.im/app/ https://riot.im/app/ makes Firefox use 100% CPU and my laptops fan spin; I closed it after 10 seconds of just a loading animation"