Hey Beehaw, I wanted to check if anyone knew of any good Foss alternatives to slack?
I live in a co-op, and we currently use free slack to organize our online discussions, but we’ve run into issues with the free version (namely being unable to see posts older than 3 months). Paying for pro is way out of budget, so Im looking for alternatives.
We could probably self-host if required, assuming it doesn’t require a ton of power. And it’d be very important for it to have a good phone app or phone front, as that’s how most people interact with the internet. We’re only just shy of 30 people, so no need for super-high capacity. Thank you in advance!
I haven’t explored it enough to give firm advice, but Matrix has “spaces” that seem to collect rooms, which presents itself in the modern clients a lot like Slack would. And creating rooms isn’t much work.
Mattermost also always seems like a good option, but self-hosting carries a maintenance cost. I also used to maintain a small program to stash Slack conversations over time (as a hedge against their limitations) and display/analyze them, but it would be an undertaking to make it work today with the current API.