Why Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

• Mattermost

  142 28,049 9.9 TypeScript

  Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..

  

I haven't seen Mattermost [0] mentioned by anyone here, especially considering it's open-source and you can self-host. Admittedly, it has been a while since I've done some research on these platforms, but is there something I'm missing that makes Tulip or Rocketchat better?

[0] https://mattermost.com/

• Discourse

  198 40,478 10.0 Ruby

  A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.

  

There is absolutely a self hosting option with Discourse, and in fact they encourage it. [0]

[0] https://github.com/discourse/discourse

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• customdiscordrpc

  1,200 14 4.9 C#

  Customizable Discord Rich Presence Client for Windows.

• robusta

  36 2,412 9.6 Python

  Kubernetes observability and automation, with an awesome Prometheus integration

  

Slacks pricing model makes sense for business workspaces, but it doesn't work well for public communities.

I run the Slack community for https://github.com/robusta-dev/robusta

We'd gladly pay, but pricing needs to be different when you have a community that is open to the public and has far, far more users than the size of your company.

• Flarum

  59 14,904 2.8 PHP

  Simple forum software for building great communities.

  

• localslackirc

  6 137 9.0 Python

  IRC gateway for slack, running on localhost for one user

I normally use [localslackirc](https://github.com/ltworf/localslackirc) to use slack.

I can grep through the logs if I need to find something. That's really really fast compared to their search on the website.

I also get other advantages such as not automatically being forced to see all the reaction GIFs and being able to silence notifications from certain users that abuse them.

• awesome-selfhosted

  765 177,940 8.7 Makefile

  A list of Free Software network services and web applications which can be hosted on your own servers

  

Not yet, but that's on my todolist. I recommend this list: https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted

In general I only select services that are easy and fast to install and backup and have a nice UX so it won't go unused. I always install a service into a virtual machine first and take notes about the process. If there are any red flags like too complicated configration, missing documentation, heavy reasource usage, crippleware aka paywalling core features, then I just skip it and move on the next one.

After the service has proven itself trustworthy and useful, it's nice to start contributing to the project too. Everybody wins. And I gotta say, there are some incredible open-source software out there.

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

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