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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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1806 points JustSkyfall | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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tossandthrow ◴[18 Sep 25 07:42 UTC] No.45286749[source]▶
Slack has been a down hill project for the past 5 years and has become incredibly bad.

Unfortunately,this should be the sentiment with all SaaS projects.

When a platform, like in this case, is inherent to the value proposition and can not easily be exchanged (building programs around it), one should consider self hosting.

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1. YetAnotherNick ◴[18 Sep 25 09:46 UTC] No.45287640[source]▶
This is licensing problem, not hosting problem. VMware and Oracle didn't got it reputation out of thin air.
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2. tossandthrow ◴[18 Sep 25 11:46 UTC] No.45288463[source]▶
You are right, but when self hosting you do have a bit more leverage - such as not being rug-pulled by the SaaS provider before having gone through arbitration.

Organizations need to realize that being right does not matter if you are dead.