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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: 0s | source
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novatea ◴[18 Sep 25 02:28 UTC] No.45284425[source]▶
Another Hack Club member here, this situation is hard on many of us since we built many of our projects around Slack integration, and we now have to rapidly re-code them so they don't break. It's not great, especially in the middle of the school week (reminder that hack club is a coding nonprofit for teenagers, so i have to go to school and have homework while doing this)
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lazystar ◴[18 Sep 25 05:37 UTC] No.45285843[source]▶
welcome to hacking, i guess. this is the real working experience that youll need in the industry
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elnerd ◴[18 Sep 25 06:14 UTC] No.45286094[source]▶
Getting the rug pulled under you does not qualify as an experience you need. It happens, but should not be in the curriculum for kids.

I am sure that being forced to spend time on this steals time from more interesting projects.

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1. lelanthran ◴[18 Sep 25 10:51 UTC] No.45288070[source]▶
> Getting the rug pulled under you does not qualify as an experience you need.

I disagree; this is the best time to unlearn "companies selling proprietary software are our friends"

Arguably it's a more valuable lesson than any technical lesson: ignoring existing open source projects in favour of proprietary stuff should hurt.

The more it hurts the better the lesson sticks.