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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by spiffytech on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @01:44PM (#25850218)
$10/mo is steeper than I like for a chat app, but this is so huge to just roll everything into one place, and I like that it's OSS, so I'm happy to pitch in and support the devs even if I'm capable of self-hosting the backend.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by petre on Thursday January 21, 2021 @01:38AM (#25856178)
For $10/mo one could host their own VPS and server infra.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by robinhood on Thursday January 21, 2021 @09:10AM (#25858939)
Classic HN comment. Yeah, $10/mo, + the time needed to setup everything + the time to maintain it + the security holes to patch yourself + the downtime because the instance rebooted for some reasons + the monitoring of the service + all the time wasted because you could have simply lived your life and paid the reasonable fees for the service in the first place.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by petre on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:16AM (#25860465)
Not at all, prosody and ejabberd both work flawlessly without all of that nonsense. If it's a shitty piece of software maybe, but then why even bother using it in the first place?
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by imwillofficial on Friday January 22, 2021 @12:18AM (#25868586)
“All that nonsense” Are the realities of running any software.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by krageon on Friday January 22, 2021 @07:52AM (#25871245)
If you don't care about the uptime of your chat service you may as well not have one. Eventually those things will be the same.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by rattray on Thursday January 21, 2021 @11:07AM (#25860341)
The first sentence in your otherwise useful post doesn't feel helpful to the conversation.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by tutfbhuf on Saturday January 23, 2021 @11:45AM (#25883703)
I already have a VPS for other reasons, so I'm glad if I could get a self-hosted solution.
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Re:Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App by m-p-3 on Friday January 22, 2021 @08:44AM (#25871572)
But that includes setting up and maintaining it, as well as troubleshooting when there's an issue.

For some, $10/month is a nice way to have all that worry-free.

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