Those self-hosting Mattermost for open source community: how is that working out—especially cost-wise?
Paying Mattermost directly seems to be cost-prohibitive for a large open source community ($10/user/seat??), but it’s not clear to me what the actual infra costs of self-hosting could be. But free solutions like Slack and Discord are no-goes due to certain policies and a lack of safety protections we need.
Boosts welcome for exposure! 🙏
#SelfHosting #mattermost #OpenSource #community
Cassidy James :rr: :gg: :fh:
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