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Re:Lessons from seven years of remote work by KronisLV on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @06:32AM (#29402766)
Believe it or not, some companies out there simply won't pay for Slack and will just use the free tier, which will eat the messages after some time anyways.

Of course, if billing or other concerns prevent them from doing this, i fail to see why they don't just use self hosted solutions, like Rocket.Chat, which isn't all that hard to do either.

I actually did that myself and wrote about it on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/lets-run-our-own-chat-plat...

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Re:Lessons from seven years of remote work by AussieWog93 on Wednesday December 01, 2021 @08:04AM (#29403269)
>i fail to see why they don't just use self hosted solutions, like Rocket.Chat, which isn't all that hard to do either.

I would assume CYA. If a self-hosted, non-industry-standard program went down, the person who set it up would be putting be their balls on the line. If Slack goes down, they can blame someone externally.

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