Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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casq ◴[18 Sep 25 04:09 UTC] No.45285280[source]▶

Hi, I’m Christina, cofounder of Hack Club. We just announced this news to our community, and this post is from one of the teenagers in Hack Club. It’s an accurate description of what’s happened, and we’re grateful to them for posting. Slack changed the terms of a special deal we were given last year to charge us for staff and volunteers (not for every teenager coding), and we built programs around that special rate. Then this spring they changed the terms to every single user without telling us or sending a new contract, and then ignored our outreach and delayed us and told us to ignore the bill and not to pay as late as Aug 29

Then, suddenly, they called us 2 days ago and said they are going to de-activate the Hack Club Slack, including all message history from 11 years, unless we pay them $50,000 USD this week and $200,000 USD/year moving forward (plus additional annual fees for new accounts, including inactive ones)

For anyone reading this, we would really appreciate any way to contact people at Salesforce to discuss time to migrate because deactivating us in 5 days destroys all the work of thousands of teen coders at Hack Club and alum unnecessarily. We are not asking for anything for free. This was an underhanded process by the sales team to raise our rate exorbitantly from a qualified educational 501(c)(3) charity serving young developers or destroy all their projects, DMs and work forever. If Salesforce’s goals have changed- ok. Give us a reasonable amount of time to migrate- and don’t club us over the head like this. We have had an 11 year great relationship with Slack- and have introduced the company to many many future engineers and founders. My email if you can help us: christina@hackclub.com

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actionfromafar ◴[18 Sep 25 08:43 UTC] No.45287173[source]▶

>>45285280 #

Thousands of teen coders now hate Salesforce in advance. This is very shortsighted.

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luckman212 ◴[18 Sep 25 10:25 UTC] No.45287894[source]▶

>>45287173 #

Wait, there are people who actually don't hate Salesforce?

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1. ChrisMarshallNY ◴[18 Sep 25 11:55 UTC] No.45288523{3}[source]▶

>>45287894 #

I have anecdotally heard good things about Benioff, as a person.

But then, I've also heard good things said about Elon, as a person, so take it with a grain of salt, I guess...

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2. Zagreus2142 ◴[18 Sep 25 12:57 UTC] No.45289068[source]▶

>>45288523 (TP) #

Having known a couple founders turned millionaires (no one in the many millions or billions tho), they will use small as a percentage of their wealth but large in nominal terms donations to bolster their reputation in exactly the same way one might spend too much in a video game for a fancy cosmetic.

3. nickdothutton ◴[18 Sep 25 12:58 UTC] No.45289082[source]▶

>>45288523 (TP) #

As a general rule, if ever someone is presented to you as a 2-dimensional character or cartoonish hero or villain, there is usually quite a bit more to discover. This probably goes in my list of 100 things to tell any young person about life.

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4. no_wizard ◴[18 Sep 25 13:12 UTC] No.45289253[source]▶

>>45289082 #

Counterpoint though, they’re sometimes exactly what they’re described as.

Elon Musk, Larry Ellison and Jeff Bezos are examples of this

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5. NetMageSCW ◴[18 Sep 25 13:23 UTC] No.45289390{3}[source]▶

>>45289253 #

Except those examples are specifically and obviously not true, except maybe Larry Ellison.

6. ekidd ◴[18 Sep 25 14:45 UTC] No.45290366[source]▶

>>45289082 #

Some of the people who have caused the most pain, suffering and death in the world were still kind to their dogs. They are often pleasant socially. Stalin, by was apparently delightful over a glass of whiskey and some cigars.

The older I get, the more I judge people by what they work for in the world, and what changes they try to bring about. I am less interested in the face that they present socially.

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