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Slack has given us a free trial for the next 90 days. That means the full history is searchable. Enjoy! (But, of course, don't get hooked on the pro features. We'll be back on the free plan when the trial ends.)

(Yes, there's Mariano's <http://history.futureofcoding.org|history search tool>, but it has some limits.)

Also <https://github.com/akkartik/foc-archive|my static site stored in a git repo> (~200MB download) that you can `grep` through. That has complementary limitations.

<@UCUSW7WVD> Indeed, thanks &amp; sorry – I guess I meant approx. how many active users are there here

Ah. Not sure! The uncertainty there from month to month is also a concern, I think.

<#CEXED56UR|> has 2k subscribers. So the worst case is $10k/mo.

Here is 338 people on an almost-certainly-overkill $60 vps :kissing:

(The spikes are from the registration script spamming the admin api)

Wait, where are y'all pulling these stats from?!

From a  totally unrelated matrix server that is hosting a similar number of people for somewhat less than $10k/mo.

That probably wasn't very clear :smile:

Ah, you're making a case to move off Slack before we send it any cash. :+1::skin-tone-3::+1::skin-tone-3:

<@U01JNTE35QS> just shared <https://linen.dev|https://linen.dev> which seems very relevant.

I also just noticed that Pleroma is written in Elixir and runs on Alpine Linux, which could be a fairly parsimonious and low-maintenance stack. I might put up a test installation next week. It's ActivityPub, but I think we can configure it to take out character limits and not peer with other instances.

Discord is also an option. It has it’s own downsides of course, threads being the biggest one for long running discussions :thinking_face: