
✅ Migrate to Discord
We’ve been running a free Slack instance for the KmikeyM community for many years. In a new effort to convert users to paid plans they announced they will be deleting our 121,000+ message archive if we don’t convert to a pro plan.
The cost to run a paid instance would be over $200 per month. This new push also includes new limits on integrations, loss of document history, limits on audio and video calls, and other "incentives."
After talking about this with the Board of Directors we’re starting to get excited about a switch to Discord, which is designed for online communities and can be better integrated into KmikeyM. So we’re recommending we move to Discord.
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Join us on Discord - https://discord.gg/PJK2D7fRM8
discord isn't all that bad. I'm not on the slack so i don't see the messages.
Strongly disagree. Purely for personal reasons - I don't use Discord.
The biggest issue with Slack is that we lose all history past 90 days, permanently... Whereas Discord has permanent history, for free.
I'm not a big fan of Discord...despite being part of a few communities.
Discord fucking sucks.
Discord has a lot of features that could be fun too. For example, creating private channels for the different badges assigned to shareholders: https://kmikeym.com/badges
(to be fair, slack fucking sucks too, but leaving one corporate piece of shit for another that’s harder to use seems stupid)
Just wanted to add that while the current change that triggered this is Slack announcing their change of policy to actually delete old messages, this is likely only the beginning. Slack has made it very clear publicly and in other private discussions that they are not interested in supporting free community instances of Slack and that they are focusing on business customers. Whereas Discord is built specifically to support small community instances.
Not on the Slack train, easy Yes
Why not something more open like mattermost? It’s only a matter of time until discord pulls a slack on their users.
@py the big difference between slack and discord is slack is explicitly targeted to business/enterprise uses and their pricing model reflects that. Discord wants more smaller communities and has alternative monetization strategies other than charging the creator of the instance.
I'm a big fan of self-hosting things in general, but you do have to weigh the other costs involved with that. One is just server costs and maintenance, but also the community overhead of having people install a separate app just for the kmikeym chat would likely significantly decrease the number of people who would participate more than either slack or discord would.
I like the Mattermost suggestion. Meanwhile, Discord > Slack.
Slack is, was, and always will be utter dogshit. Discord is purpose-built for communities like this one and won't give you PTSD from how notifications are handled.
Are the UI and UX arguably as bad as they were 9 years ago? Absolutely! But between the two, and especially given the ability to scale and manage communities with ease and for free, Discord wins out easily in comparison.
Also also, Discord has built-in network effects similar to how Slack does. I hadn't heard of Mattermost until this thread, and while it seems cool I wonder how much it matters that it isn't as common or accessible a platform as Discord.
Oh thank god, I can finally un-install slack...
We're doing this so that Gene and I can finally uninstall Slack.