500KB seems to be the bundle size, how much RAM does the client use?
Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
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Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#12Can we run this locally and _not_ on the cloud?
I'm pretty sure it's Open Source here: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#13The size is only one of the factors, it can be small but slow, especially when the history grows.
I agree.
while(1) malloc(1000);
Is only 0.02kb and will bring your computer to a crawl.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#14500KB seems to be the bundle size, how much RAM does the client use?
At https://www.linen.dev/s/linen
Page open:
Firefox: 18.5MB
Chrome: 12.1MB
After browsing:
Firefox: 27.14MB
Chrome: 11.7MB
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#15I think linen definitely solves a lot of issues OSS communities face when the majority of issues are answered on discord/slack. The need for such a tool should decrease as docs mature however. So maybe a tool to integrate with or update the docs could be cool.
On a general note I think you should link back to your landing page from the navigation of a project. Especially if people enter via a search engine, they are essentially locked within an organization. The only way out is to manually navigate to linen.dev.
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Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#17the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33248488 and there was another thread last year for their main domain https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31494908 I wish all the locked away Slack communities would use Linen[1] because there are so many nuggets of bug-fixery buried in Slack that will age off or never be found in the horrors of Slack search 1: I really wish they'd just stop using Slack entirely sinc…
Tell me more about Zulip?
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#18Not to take away from Linen, it seems great, but whenever I see new chat software I lament the fact that Zulip isn't more popular. It's super fast, and its threading model is amazing.
Zulip is the only software I've found where you can catch up on weeks of conversation extremely quickly. It's fantastic. I never felt that I lost messages, unlike Slack, and it's very responsive, again unlike Slack.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#19We actively evaluated Linen in launching our community. Although, we went with discourse as we are going for a forum type community platform but Linen certainly has fantastic potential. One very minor friction point with Linen was, it needs to be a bit transparent about their pricing for business tier. I don't think "contact us" pricing strategy is the perfect fit Linen's target audience.
Sorry about that. It was a vestige of Linen's first version being very Enterpise sales heavy and we haven't updated it. At the moment it is 150/month for 5000 members for our paid tier and 50/month more for every 5000. Will update it this week! We just shipped our self checkout flow last week: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/commit/61c482cab5d5aa... Just hadn't got the chance to update it on the landing page y…
Reasonable for enterprise, but that's pretty high for my tranche in small business. Any possibility of matching Slack pricing for super small (<20)?
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#20FYI - this is a VC backed project.
Expect this to become a paid offering at some point.