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No, some certainly were. There's one quoted in the blog post, for example.

In a small community, and if you're not using it for lots of chit-chat but rather for something focused like scientific research, you can go years and years without reaching 10k messages. So in that circumstance, it's pretty reasonable to have chosen Slack under its old policy. Especially if one wasn't aware of Zulip. ;-)

(I'm one of the Zulip developers.)

[cauthon]

> ather for something focused like scientific research, you can go years and years without reaching 10k messages

I don’t know what kind of scientists you’ve worked with, but I haven’t met any so short-winded

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I work with a ton of scientists (and am one myself) and I’m a member of multiple slack channels with hundreds of members that are years old and only have a 1-2k messages.

An example is a Python users group where there’s maybe a few threads a week. And it’s really useful to search for old threads.

Another is a hackathon with maybe 30 people where there were a few hundred messages over a week and then 1 message a month.

[LtWorf]

Self host a forum…

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That’s what I’ll end up doing. Pretty much migrating all these chats off slack.

Interestingly, these led to lots of pie licenses and we’re migrating all these over too.

Once we’re self hosting a server then we don’t need the paid license either.

Seems kind of much for $100/year/user anyway. Teams is bundled in with o365 for nothing or little extra.

[ImPostingOnHN]

sounds like now you know of plenty!