For my part, I was using it with Postgres most of the time. I'm on Ubuntu, so there aren't a thousand alternatives. For now, I'm back at using the command line for everything. But the command line sucks when trying to debug/find/compare some data in large tables. :-(

This is a sad news for me. I loved their product, and really enjoyed the fact that it worked great on Ubuntu. Oh well... :-(

From their website:

Hello,

TeamSQL has been a great platform to experiment with modern UI and powerful features to help you manage your popular databases with collaborative features.

Over two years later after launching TeamSQL in 2016, we've learned a lot about how to make database management better. As we look to the future, we want to take a more focused approach that will help us bring the best database management experience. As a result, we’re planning to rebrand TeamSQL as DataRow, starting with focusing on Amazon Redshift and say goodbye to TeamSQL. All TeamSQL services will be shut down on February 27, 2019 (00:00 UTC). We introduced the beta of new DataRow to our Amazon Redshift users in January this year, and now it is publicly available to everyone. DataRow comes with new features, which helps you work faster. Visit DataRow's website at DataRow to learn more about how the features in DataRow can help you manage your Amazon Redshift better.

We are always here to help you switch from TeamSQL to the new DataRow with ease. Please contact us at contact us if you have any questions. See you there.

Sincerely,

Eren Baydemir CEO

I'm adding my voice: Let's Encrypt and Certbot have made my life much easier. We manage somewhere around 100 websites where I work, and we were probably no more than 4 out 5 to monitor certificates, and renew them actively. It's a million times easier now.

Thanks a lot, and keep up your fantastic work!

I can't really see how it's better than Monero. From their website:

Monero uses ring signatures, ring confidential transactions, and stealth addresses to obfuscate the origins, amounts, and destinations of all transactions.

My understanding, which may be incorrect:

The "anonymity set" of a monero transaction is just the number of fake values created in it. This is a fairly small number. If you're willing to put the effort in, you can trace all of them.

For MW, the the anonymity set is either "all users of system" (if you don't believe in a global network observer) or "all users of system who exchanged parameters in a given set".

In addition to this, Monero has the same "linearly growing blockchain history" scaling problem that bitcoin does. fluffypony has floated the idea of a mimblewimble sidechain for Monero.

Grin is less private but more scalable.

Grin is different private. I wouldn't say it's less private. The fact that you can submit a truncated set of transactions, can in some cases provide far more privacy than Monero.

Much more scalable than Monero as you do not need to store the blockchain only the UTXO set

Can I upvote twice?

Wow. Thanks for the way you put this out. This is exactly how I was feeling / what I was experiencing. So I went ahead, and installed my own MatterMost instance with friends.

What I realized recently is that Facebook is built in a way that makes it really hard to have a real conversation. People only share links and shout their opinions with no real place for exchange.

Turns out people don't always wan't their conversations shared with [ramifications of current privacy settings unknown, assumed to be everyone]

I understand that. My Facebook profile is mostly empty to an outsider, and even to many of my so-called friends. Hehe!

I said that because the more I think about it, the more I find social media platforms don't really help me stay in touch with anyone. I mean, yeah, I can see they got a third kid or that hunting season was great this year, but nothing near a real conversation around a coffee or a beer.

That's why I started using MatterMost ,an open source Slack clone, or like I tell my less tech-savvy friends: IRC on steroids. (IRC was the go to choice when we were teens)

That's why I personally like Twitter.

1. There is no private (there is, but ignore that)

2. Choose a topic to post about. Further that and none else.

3. Post topical discussions only.

4. Don't involve yourself in screeds. There will be a sentence that is taken out of context.

Doing these creates a really cool group over $thing. And that positive attraction pulls more in :)

This is the good side of social media: connecting people with similar interests from around the world.

I experienced the same with Google+ and D&D over the past years... But they're closing now. :-p

My personal thanks to you then! Teaching good ethics too people in a position where doing bad things would be relatively easy is really the way to go, in my opinion at least.

I've been running my own MatterMost (a Slack clone) instance for a little while now. I've invited some close friends, a tiny bit of family, and colleagues I particularly appreciate. It's been fantastic so far. I decided to host it on a VPS because upload speed at home truly sucks, and hosting it locally wouldn't turn into a good experience for other users. Still, I own all the data. I've told all the other members that I do, and they're OK with it.

I bought a nice sounding domain name, got an SSL certificate from Let's Encrypt, and was good to go! My mental health has been increasing since then (no joke).

I caught myself writing way too intense titles when sharing very legitimate stuff on Reddit for that same reason. I keep telling myself that if my title is "just normal", nobody will take a look at what I'm sharing... when it's probably the opposite.

This is mostly why I have come to hate most social media: too many people around me share this crap, most of the time, without even reading it I guess. I open Facebook and within seconds, I'm hit with mixed feelings of sadness, anger, despair and anxiety (something I'm actively working on).

I recently installed my own Mattermost instance where I invited close friends and some family who I trust won't share all this crap.

Fantastic article! Thanks for sharing!