okcoder1's comments

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[okcoder1]

IRC would not be useful for Hack Club as it's only text. Hack Club requires software that allows us to upload images, create canvases and most importantly, call with others.

[buovjaga → okcoder1]

Not saying there's a turnkey solution at the moment for your exact needs, but even with your current $5k/year budget something interesting could be built with the "modern IRC stack" that https://irctoday.com/ uses, for example. Call support would have to be done by integrating Jitsi, but it's been done before as seen in https://github.com/kiwiirc/plugin-conference and https://convos.chat/doc/features#video-support

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[okcoder1]

skulk thats only for fun and games sob

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[okcoder1]

Looks like we're moving to Mattermost!

On: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

[okcoder1]

Hi! An official announcement from Zach Latta has been made in the Hack Club Slack. We're moving to Mattermost now and we're trying to export all messages, DMs, etc. Disclaimer: I am a member of Hack Club's Slack and NOT a working personnel there.

[SadTrombone → okcoder1]

Not sure if you saw this, but another user pointed out that Mattermost is moving to limit self-hosted instances to 1,000 users: https://forum.mattermost.com/t/solved-is-there-any-limitatio...

[adastra22 → SadTrombone]

Thankfully Mattermost is AGPLv3, so you can just remove the limit.

[Zekio → SadTrombone]

there exists a fork that is basically limitless https://framagit.org/framasoft/framateam/mostlymatter so if that ever becomes a problem you just swap server binary

[coder543 → Zekio]

A fork that has not been touched in at least 7 months does not inspire confidence, especially when the mobile apps depend on the server staying up to date.

[SadTrombone → coder543]

Looks like the releases are pretty up-to-date: https://packages.framasoft.org/projects/mostlymatter/

[haute_cuisine → Zekio]

Once enough people do that, they'll fix this

[wltr → SadTrombone]

Thanks for pointing that out. I was exploring self-hosted Mattermost recently, and completely missed this.

[raxxorraxor → okcoder1]

Good news and good luck with that, hopefully Mattermost will behave better.

Make sure to warn others of Slack/Salesforce, customers need to have a voice and this behavior must become prohibitly expensive for Salesforce.