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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1806 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source
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donatj ◴[18 Sep 25 02:25 UTC] No.45284391[source]▶
> Slack transitioned us from their free nonprofit plan to a $5,000/year arrangement, we happily paid. It was reasonable

Their definition of reasonable and mine are... not aligned.

Just self-host an IRC or Jabber server for crying out loud.

For a single $5,000 I'll personally teach each of your users to use it.

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1. novatea ◴[18 Sep 25 04:04 UTC] No.45285235[source]▶
There are 102,500 members in the Slack right now (though not nearly all are active), and Hack Club is mainly focused on getting teens interested in coding. It needs to be approachable for non-technical teenagers. Also, as someone else said, we build many integrations around Slack, like how users update their password and SSH keys on a VPS through a Slack bot.