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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: 0.2s | source
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drowntoge ◴[18 Sep 25 06:27 UTC] No.45286197[source]▶
Do not use Slack.
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mrweasel ◴[18 Sep 25 07:21 UTC] No.45286579[source]▶
A few years ago people could not stop talking about how great Slack was. Much better than HipChat, Google Chat, Teams, IRC. I've used all of them, Slack was never better. As much as I dislike Google Chat (or whatever they call it), Slack is worse, only beaten by Teams as the absolute worst.

But Slack was hyped, it was the new shinny. Put all your stuff in Slack it's great. Question that logic and you where told that you just didn't get it. I still don't, it's the single worst piece of software that I'm forced to use.

The business model was always as rocky as everything else coming out of San Francisco/Silicon Valley area in the past 15 years. Why are people surprised?

IRC is fine, for most things. It's free, decentralized, bots are easy to write and you can run your own servers.

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1. jrochkind1 ◴[18 Sep 25 13:12 UTC] No.45289241[source]▶
I think most people had genuinely different reactions than you, and found Slack to be a better UX. I still do. But yes, it was also a proprietary trap. it can be both. but for many many many people Slack was a much better experience than IRC, they weren't just "tricked" into thinking this.