Comment by dcchambers

Maybe a good time to remind people that 37 Signals made their standalone chat product, Campfire, open source and free earlier this month:

- https://once.com/campfire

- https://github.com/basecamp/once-campfire

I imagine the response for many of these communities will be "Let's migrate to Discord" - but I think many of them should consider hosting something themselves. They will be in complete control and something like Campfire is very low effort to manage and very cheap to host. Discord is also a VC-backed company that needs to make money, and there's nothing stopping them from charging communities there as well.