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
#2Would be nice if forums come back simply because of the searchability.
The problem is when they become inundated with users and have too much noise. Maybe it will be just another cycle which will lead back to Slack/Discord after some years and then back to forum after some more.
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#3good move, i certainly seem to get better responses when i post my hog on a forum compared to slack
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#4I'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.
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#5I 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.
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#6I 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…
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#7I 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…
Discord represents the same problem
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#8I'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?
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#9From the article:
> Rather than using an off-the-shelf forum platform, like vBulletin or phpBB, we decided to create our own forum using Strapi as a headless CMS.
Wanted to leave a link here for the impatient https://strapi.io/
Re: Posthog is closing their Slack community in favor of forum
#10I'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?
Pieter Levels' Nomad List was one, I recall. They moved to Telegram recently.