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I am their paying customer.

I had two slack workspaces for completely different projects/companies. I set the other one up early this year and we were slowly migrating to it after another SaaS went bust.

I was going to start paying for that workspace too, because I needed the extra features. Luckily they showed their true colors first and I got a chance to migrate away early. I don't want to deal with their whims long-term.

I'm grateful to Slack for their changes in the free plan, it forced our hands.

We realized it's obvious we can't trust any of these external SaaS services, in the long run they will ALWAYS change the terms and somehow fuck the customers, paying or not. And then you will lose all the invaluable information and data that belongs to you. This has happened with other services we've used in the past too.

So we decided to just start self-hosting our own private intranet. I've installed gitea, NextCloud, a private irc server (we're old school irssi users and love it, shoutout for thelounge -client too), a private social network site with Wordpress and Buddypress+BBpress with our own theme, among other things. Everything was super simple to setup and is trivial to maintain, works well across devices without any limitations. We control everything and don't have to worry about the big brother snooping our data. Along with these came many new business opportunities. So yeah, thanks slack.

I wish we invested in hyperloops and made them happen in the next decade. Those will change the world as we know it, and hopefully for the better.

I have to say, I find it sad how even the most trivial apps, like some basic bug trackers, are built on top of electron and manage to be extremely slow even with the latest 4500€ hardware. And I have to use a bunch of different slow-as-hell apps like this in work. It is just embarassing.