Post #1130094
2026-04-09 12:23 UTC
Sorry, but you're inherently wrong.
> Well, when talking about server costs, (...)
We're not.
> Threema somehow has been running on a 5€ lifetime license and business customer subscribtions for over a decade.
Most users doesn't even donate 1€ when using free messengers.
> If your nonprofit only has 65k, don't hire multiple devs and provide nice-to-have features that lead to high ops expenses in servers and storage. It's called minimal viable prpduct for a reason.
They don't offer ANY "nice-to-have" features 😭 You can't even edit send messages, which I consider to be a basic reasonable feature (which is technically difficult to implement when having E2EE, etc. in mind)
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@HelloRoot@lemy.lol 2026-04-09 13:08
> We’re not. Huh? You linked me an article where server cost is the lions share of signal operation. > Most users doesn’t even donate 1€ when using free messengers. How does signal operate then. > They don’t offer ANY “nice-to-have” features If they don't have high server costs, unlike the example from the article you brought up, they should hire cheaper software engineers from a different country or scale down development and have a longer runway. Like I said - them having this problem is probably due to poor planing.