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But you mentioned similar...this is a discussion about message limits (and saml ?). Those are free for self hosted. Push uses _their_ services. That's why it c
by gtech1 9mo ago
But you mentioned similar...this is a discussion about message limits (and saml ?). Those are free for self hosted.
Push uses _their_ services. That's why it costs $$$. But you can build your own apns endpoint and plug into that at that volume
- emptysongglass 9mo agoPush costs pennies. It's an arbitrary restriction.
- gtech1 9mo agoThen you pay for it. Nothing stops you
- emptysongglass 9mo agoThat's precisely my point. It's an arbitrary rent-seeking restriction.
- dlkckvll 9mo agoPublishing an app in popular app stores, for an organization, requires several $100 in annual fees. That’s before any mobile app is even published.
- gtech1 9mo agoAt this point I think he's just trolling. Nobody can be this entitled
- emptysongglass 9mo agoIt's a yearly fee that amounts to a couple hundred dollars. That's about an hour of an engineer's salary. Zulip's customers make this less than a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a rounding error.
- Volundr 9mo agoIf you want to run your own push for pennies all you have to do is compile the client yourself.
- emptysongglass 9mo agoI'm not going to recompile and redistribute a binary outside the Play Store.
- Volundr 9mo agoThen your piggybacking on their infrastructure. I don't think they are unreasonable. "It can be done for pennies, but I won't" sort of implies that it does indeed take more than pennies worth of effort.