I love that its google searchable which fixes the "knowledge-loss after afew days" problem.
Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
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Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#22the 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…
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Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#23I won’t run any apps over 480 KB unfortunately.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#24show me the demo
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#25500 KB + Tens of millions of lines of code of a browser + a bunch of backend code.
Want a lean Slack alternative? Use IRC. Want a fancy Slack alternative? Use Matrix.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#26the 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?
It's everything you want in a threaded chat server except federation.
Web client is responsive and has good shortcuts.
Easy-ish to self-host, cheap to buy hosted.
Configurable privacy.
Integration with all sorts of stuff, including email.
A little lacking in community moderation tools.
Text-mode client works acceptably well over a low-ish bandwidth connection.
IOS and Android clients.
Open source.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#27500 KB + Tens of millions of lines of code of a browser + a bunch of backend code. Want a lean Slack alternative? Use IRC. Want a fancy Slack alternative? Use Matrix.
There's also Mattermost which seems a reasonable Slack alternative (and self-hostable.)
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#28500 KB + Tens of millions of lines of code of a browser + a bunch of backend code. Want a lean Slack alternative? Use IRC. Want a fancy Slack alternative? Use Matrix.
I don't want to host a server and I want my messages to be synced between multiple devices including mobile ones.
I want rich messages, images, links.
I want threads.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#29500 KB + Tens of millions of lines of code of a browser + a bunch of backend code. Want a lean Slack alternative? Use IRC. Want a fancy Slack alternative? Use Matrix.
What about a Google-searchable alternative to any of these? I think this would be one of the main selling points of Linen.
Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative
#30FYI - this is a VC backed project. Expect this to become a paid offering at some point.
We do have a paid offering. Basically it's free on Linen's domain for public communities and we let you host on your domain like:
https://archive.pulumi.com/
https://linen.prefect.io/
https://slack-chats.kotlinlang.org/