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Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Post by dsr_ »

dsr_ wrote: post #26
tomrod wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

And the killer is this:

We had an IRC server. IT and Ops used it.

We moved to ejabberd. IT, Ops, and a couple of devs used it. Not all.

We moved to Zulip. Everyone in the company uses it.

Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Post by dpcx »

mdaniel wrote: post #54
dpcx wrote: post #34

How does this compare to Ripcord[0]? Granted there haven't been any new releases of Ripcord in a couple of years, it's super lightweight and mostly perfect for my uses. [0]: https://cancel.fm/ripcord/

> Ripcord is a desktop chat client for group-centric service apples and oranges? Also, I seem to recall there was some drama about if one used Ripcord against a Discord server, it resulted in your account getting banned

I misunderstood both the title of this post and the headline of the article. I thought linen.dev was a chat client!

Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Post by [deleted] »

cheeseblubber wrote: post #10
anyfactor wrote: post #6

We 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…

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Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Post by SparkyMcUnicorn »

billiam wrote: post #60
MuffinFlavored wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> tree-shaking their dependencies What tool did they use: Browserify, Webpack, Gulp, Rollup, Babel, Parcel, ESBuild, etc.

It appears that they used Webpack, which I found interesting given other alternatives.

The UI package appears to use Rollup.

And this looks like the PR for the icons update: https://github.com/Linen-dev/linen.dev/pull/1001

Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Post by urbandw311er »

cheeseblubber wrote: post #30
alberth wrote: post #20

FYI - 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/

And you guarantee in writing that this pricing structure will never change?

Re: Linen.dev: A 500 kb Slack alternative

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Post by TheFreim »

Are third party clients allowed? One thing that has made me avoid discord and most of these sorts of chat apps is that they really hate users having customized clients. There's a lot of cool features that people have made for unauthorized discord client modifications which are technically forbidden which is not ideal.
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