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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2071 points JustSkyfall | 3 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.845s | source
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Hobadee ◴[18 Sep 25 06:09 UTC] No.45286056[source]▶
This isn't just you. We have quite a few clients in this same boat. (One client is migrating to Teams in a couple of weeks for this exact reason.) We have quite a few RIA clients, and because of archiving requirements, this is happening to every single one of them. These aren't poor companies, but Slack is making it really hard to justify the expense anymore. We will have quite a few companies dump them when renewal comes around.
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beezlewax ◴[18 Sep 25 06:13 UTC] No.45286088[source]▶
Because microsoft would never do such a thing
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Ma8ee ◴[18 Sep 25 07:26 UTC] No.45286617[source]▶
The two last companies I worked for have switched from Slack to Teams. I just assumed that they had some package deal for Microsoft Office that included Teams anyway.

These have been quite big developer heavy companies. If companies like these don't think they can motivate the cost for Slack, I wonder if there are any than can.

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1. p_l ◴[18 Sep 25 10:49 UTC] No.45288047[source]▶
O365 pretty much always includes a Teams license, so if you're paying for O365 anyway...
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2. NetMageSCW ◴[18 Sep 25 13:46 UTC] No.45289641[source]▶
Not any more due to the EU antitrust case ironically brought by Slack.
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3. magicalhippo ◴[18 Sep 25 14:14 UTC] No.45289985[source]▶
True, at least in Sweden the Basic subscription with Teams is 66 SEK vs without which is 54 SEK. So that's ~12 SEK, while a Slack Pro user is about 90 SEK.