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Comment by areoform

They're already using discord. It's a single click.

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm not here to argue particulars. I'm sharing my reality as a user. A user who runs multiple communities. Including one for my friends. And my friend group extends to 2k+ people (my friends, their friends, their friend of friends... It adds up).

It's not fair that the CTE friend uses discord out of the box, but that's the power of network effects. Any competing solution needs to be 10x better to incentivise the switch.

I can setup a new discord server in a click. Versus,

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     Community plan eligibility
     Open-source projects
     Research in an academic setting
     Academic conferences and other non-profit events
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Respectfully, I'm not emailing your sales team to create a movie night server. Or one for class / group notes. Actual use cases. https://zulip.com/plans/#self-hosted
parent areoform 9 months ago

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