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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by brianpgordon on Thursday December 20, 2018 @10:55AM (#18725959)
irccloud is great and solves many of these issues. I'm not suggesting it's an alternative to Slack because of course then you're paying them $5/user/mo instead of paying Slack $6.67/user/mo and you're right back where you started, but if you're an IRC user looking for history/synchronization across devices, image previews, a mobile client, and drag-and-drop image sharing, irccloud is IMO totally worth it.
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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by Argorak on Thursday December 20, 2018 @12:38PM (#18727055)
Slack is free for users in FOSS communities. So they beat IRCCloud by 5$. Why would people with a question pay those to get into your community?

I hate Slack for open communities as much as the next person, but IRC or fixes on top of it aren't really the solution.

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Re:Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada by bad_user on Thursday December 20, 2018 @11:05AM (#18726047)
>> you're paying them $5/user/mo instead of paying Slack $6.67/user/mo and you're right back where you started

Are we complaining about price or are we complaining about proprietary services?

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