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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by pcthrowaway on Thursday September 18, 2025 @04:35AM (#45287110)
Notably, Mattermost can be forked to a community edition if the team behind it does anything too user-hostile. It's a fine balance for them to keep their "team edition" nudging users to a supported edition without being so annoying that users are motivated to make that community edition.

I have other reasons to want a community edition personally, but sadly they've been successful enough thus far that there isn't enough interest from other developers to make it happen.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by danielheath on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:14PM (#45307921)
Forking involves:

* Fork the server (adjust your CI / build / deploy pipeline) * Run your own push notification broker * Fork the iOS client, white-label it, point it at your push server * Setup apple dev account to publish * Fork the android client, white-label it, point it at your push server * Setup google dev account to publish * Fork the frontend repo, edit to match the white-labelled apps

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