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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2339 points JustSkyfall | 2 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source
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raesene9 ◴[18 Sep 25 09:42 UTC] No.45287607[source]▶
Slack seem to be doing this to a wide range of groups. The Kubernetes project and CNCF were told by Slack that they would lose access to the paid version with quite short notice.

In their case the change was reverted (I think it caught the eye of someone sufficiently senior at Salesforce), but if you're running a non-profit on Slack and not paying full price, I'd strongly recommend looking at alternatives...

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cmckn ◴[18 Sep 25 10:08 UTC] No.45287780[source]▶
Funny, this post got me wondering how much the k8s slack cost! Do you have any references where I can read more? I didn’t hear about that
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1. raesene9 ◴[18 Sep 25 10:48 UTC] No.45288045[source]▶
Best place for info is probably the announcements channel on Kubernetes slack. that’s a link which is a good place to start https://kubernetes.slack.com/archives/C9T0QMNG4/p17500871180...
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2. boramalper ◴[18 Sep 25 11:46 UTC] No.45288462[source]▶
Here is the public announcement: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2025/06/16/changes-to-kubernetes-...

> UPDATE: We’ve received notice from Salesforce that our Slack workspace WILL NOT BE DOWNGRADED on June 20th. Stand by for more details, but for now, there is no urgency to back up private channels or direct messages.