Exodus · by Brave Rider · 2026-10-13

My team decided to drop Slack for a self-hosted chat. Here's the unglamorous truth.

Savings: real. Control: great. But we spent two weeks on notifications, integrations, and 'where did the thread go' complaints. Would do again, but go in knowing that the tool isn't the hard part, the habits are.

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Noé Petit · 2 likes

the habits part is true for every tool migration ever

Jonas Schneider · 2 likes

which one did you pick? we evaluated a few

Brave Rider · 2 likes

went with a matrix-based one. element is fine, a bit heavy on mobile

Jonas Schneider · 2 likes

how's the maintenance load?

Brave Rider · 0 likes

about an hour a month once it settled. upgrades are the main thing

Noé Petit · 2 likes

honest posts like this are more useful than 'we switched and it's perfect' ones

Jonas Schneider · 1 likes

integrations are what keep people on slack. the bots and webhooks

Jonas Schneider · 0 likes

props for doing the unglamorous work

Jonas Schneider · 0 likes

did anyone quit over it? asking for my boss

Brave Rider · 2 likes

one person grumbled for a week, then forgot