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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: 0.245s | source
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fn-mote ◴[18 Sep 25 02:24 UTC] No.45284378[source]▶
I was ready to be unsympathetic - too bad for the company - but then I read TFA and it's a rug pull on a nonprofit teaching coding to kids....

https://hackclub.com/

(They do help clubs sell things, taking "7% of income", so they do have a revenue stream, but the money that Slack wants would pay a veritable army of student interns.)

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enriquto ◴[18 Sep 25 06:58 UTC] No.45286417[source]▶
> a nonprofit teaching coding to kids

that's a perfect teaching occasion, then!

Kids: don't use proprietary services just because they are trendy. Prefer always open standards!

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1. zelphirkalt ◴[18 Sep 25 11:38 UTC] No.45288392[source]▶
Yep, time to self host one of the awesome self hosting list's chat options. This will teach independence too. I have a ready ansible deployment for zulip using docker in my repos [1], publicly available. All that's needed is a server, setting some variables in ansible, deploying that thing, and adding backups. It will cost significantly less than any slack subscription and will not cost per user.

[1]: https://codeberg.org/ZelphirKaltstahl/server-management/src/...