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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by polote on Thursday May 20, 2021 @02:44PM (#27225361)
> Maybe running your own Zulip instance isn't as sexy or has the same integrations, but at least you can have a person responsible for fixing it and get status updates, and ultimately

Let's replace something that is almost never down don't require any maintenance (Slack) with something that requires maintenance and will probably go down more frequently than Slack. I hardly see any benefit in term of availability going on Zulip

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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by pritambaral on Thursday May 20, 2021 @06:00PM (#27227967)
> that requires maintenance and will probably go down more frequently than Slack

Been running Zulip for two years at two companies. Never gone down, not even during maintenance (zero-downtime reloads FTW), which was twice, for version upgrades.

> don't require any maintenance (Slack)

Neither does zulip.com, which is a managed service by the makers and maintainers of Zulip and costs the same as Slack.

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Re:Slack was experiencing an outage by iso1631 on Thursday May 20, 2021 @03:03PM (#27225608)
> Let's replace something that is almost never down don't require any maintenance (Slack)

Slack is constantly down -- every few months it reaches HN as a "slack is down" story.

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