[HN Gopher] New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
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New plans for self-hosted Zulip customers
 
Author : throwachimera
Score  : 11 points
Date   : 2023-12-15 22:18 UTC (41 minutes ago)
 
web link (blog.zulip.com)
w3m dump (blog.zulip.com)
 
| williamstein wrote:
| New self-hosted customers will no longer get unlimited free
| access to Zulip's Mobile Push. Fortunately, this doesn't mean
| they are making anything closed source!
 
| leros wrote:
| This seems fair. It sounds like they were essentially giving part
| of their hosted service away for free to self-hosted users.
 
| yellow_lead wrote:
| That's kind of stingy IMO. The push notification service can't be
| too expensive to run. Plus, notifications are a big part of
| messaging services.
| 
| Yes, the client is open source, but the user would need to submit
| their own version of the client apps to Google/iOS, while
| embedding their FCM API info into the app, in order to access
| push notifications again.
 
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