[spiffytech]

$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.

[petre]

For $10/mo one could host their own VPS and server infra.

[robinhood]

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.

[petre]

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?

[imwillofficial]

“All that nonsense” Are the realities of running any software.

[krageon]

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.

[rattray]

The first sentence in your otherwise useful post doesn't feel helpful to the conversation.

[tutfbhuf]

I already have a VPS for other reasons, so I'm glad if I could get a self-hosted solution.

[m-p-3]

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.