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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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2071 points JustSkyfall | 1 comments | 18 Sep 25 01:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.225s | 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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dominicrose ◴[18 Sep 25 08:16 UTC] No.45286960[source]▶
We've been using Mattermost for so long I don't know what happened to Slack but the fact that they can't keep their customers is not really an issue as long as we have similar software available for a more just cost or self-hostable.

This type of app isn't supposed to hold data. At least in my opinion, Slack is more for instant messaging and e-mail for tracing.

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1. redserk ◴[18 Sep 25 11:31 UTC] No.45288342[source]▶
If you’re going to spend the effort to rewrite your chat conversations back into email, you might as well throw those summaries into a wiki or other documentation system..