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Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by colechristensen »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #4

I've heard that Slack becomes gigantically costly once you hit certain thresholds. Another big community is moving away from it after spending nearly $0.5M a year just on Slack.

The free version of slack has no user limits. The paid version is about 8 or 12 dollars a month per active user. You get more features and unlimited history with paid.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by habitue »

worik wrote: post #8
Brajeshwar wrote: post #4

I've heard that Slack becomes gigantically costly once you hit certain thresholds. Another big community is moving away from it after spending nearly $0.5M a year just on Slack.

> Another big community Who?

OnDeck is also moving away from it

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by ironmagma »

jmspring wrote: post #6
ironmagma wrote: post #5

I hope this is the beginning of a trend. Depending on some third party to manage my communications with a second party feels dirty and also forces me to clutter up my (in this case) Slack setup. Discord is even more insane in this regard.

I’d take discord over slack. Aside from the lack of being able to use multiple email addresses…

Between publicizing my joined servers to other users, lack of fine grained notification control, constant captchas/email verification, and lack of alternative clients, discord teeters right on the fulcrum of convenience balanced by user-unfriendliness.

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Post by ssnistfajen »

Brajeshwar wrote: post #4

I've heard that Slack becomes gigantically costly once you hit certain thresholds. Another big community is moving away from it after spending nearly $0.5M a year just on Slack.

It's possible to negotiate bulk pricing. The billing is also based on the number of active days per user: https://slack.com/help/articles/218915077-Slacks-Fair-Billin..., so a 5000 member community doesn't necessarily mean they'll have to pay $7.25*5000 every month. But agreed Slack is generally a poor choice to host any non-profit-making organizations due to having to choose between either gated knowledge or allocating a hefty expense.

Discord is the better alternative for now due to the lack of content gating in the free tier but that might change when they become desperate enough with their profitability push.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by stevenicr »

Hoping someone was going to show a phpbb or vbulletin theme that makes it look like slack if you are logged in, and look like pinterst / instagram / tiktok - when logged out.

Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to move a lot of people back into forums - they just expect the threads and thumbs to look different on mobile.

Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum

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Post by hannofcart »

ironmagma wrote: post #14
jmspring wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d take discord over slack. Aside from the lack of being able to use multiple email addresses…

Between publicizing my joined servers to other users, lack of fine grained notification control, constant captchas/email verification, and lack of alternative clients, discord teeters right on the fulcrum of convenience balanced by user-unfriendliness.

Might not exactly fix the issue of publicizing joined servers to other users, but one item of note is that Discord allows you to set a per server identity.
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