[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.