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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1502 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.311s | source
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cozzyd ◴[18 Sep 25 02:04 UTC] No.45284173[source]▶
If they start doing this to academic accounts... I'll have to set up some Mattermost instances...
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hopelite ◴[18 Sep 25 02:18 UTC] No.45284314[source]▶
Frankly, not having an alternative identified for all hosted corporate services and maybe even at the ready with regularly maintained deployment and transition plans is and long has been reckless at this point.

Think of it, this example alone is a $250k risk and it seems from this point forward that $250k risk is significantly high and the impact is major, considering there’s a short decision fuse on the extortion.

Would you be ready to retain data; set up, deploy, transition, restore, and scale alternatives to Slack within a week or your institution be forced to pay such blackmail/extortion?

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1. 3eb7988a1663 ◴[18 Sep 25 02:31 UTC] No.45284450[source]▶
That seems an unreasonable bar for all services. Even if you have identified say, Gogs to replace your Github instance, there are so many practical realities of porting a large installation that your simulacra instance is offering nothing.