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Ouch. A large OpenStreetMap group has been using a proprietary chat platform as a community space for ~10 yrs. Now they gotta pay a $80k/yr (or $10k??) for usage. 
Slack (now Salesforce) now wants to charge @OpenStreetMapUS for all ~6k users on their server. Ouch.
This sort of bait & switch is why open, community owned platforms (like this!) are vital!
read more on the slack (while you still can??!): https://osmus.slack.com/archives/C029HV951/p1705438543546349
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #Cassandra
@amapanda @OpenStreetMapUS To be clear, it's not payment for usage, it's payment to maintain status quo in terms of scrollback/history.
I wish there was something equivalent to Slack in the OSS world!
@ian Yup.
Maybe you should just switch to the “messages are gone after 90 days” option? Could be interesting for seeing what positive & negative changes that does to the culture...
@amapanda Yep, I think it would reinforce the idea that real time communication is meant to be ephemeral. Longer term decisions and thoughts should go in the forum, wiki, etc.
Or people would forget to migrate things and stuff would get lost. But maybe that's not the end of the world.
FOSSGIS @amapanda@en.osm.town@ian losing all that history is just sad...
i hope they do an export...