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: 0.221s | 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]▶

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Because microsoft would never do such a thing

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1. exhilaration ◴[18 Sep 25 10:53 UTC] No.45288079[source]▶

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So here's a tip for those of you thinking about using Teams: the huge F500 company company I work for uses Teams but it's used strictly for chat and real-time communications, so essentially it's a replacement for office phones. They enforce this by limiting its history to 10 days!

At first I hated this - it was like using a chat app from the 90's! Why can't I have unlimited history like Slack? Why can't I link to chat discussions in tickets and code comments like I did at every other company I've worked at? But the enforced 10 day limit means you HAVE to properly document conversations and decisions outside of the chat platform. It completely eliminates any reliance on the chat platform - we could switch to something new tomorrow and (except for some grumbling about have to relearn a new interface) nobody would really care.

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