Are there no contracts? How is this legal? My European mind cannot comprehend.
Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
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Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
#422I'm assuming SLACK is somehow under bot DDOS.
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#423Hi, 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.…
If you have a bunch of coders, just scrape the data. Then turn your back on this greedy maw. We recently moved to Mattermost for the same reason. Not looking back.
this is what we're doing :)
Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
#424Slack is such a bloated, slow, piece of crap, every single keystroke gives me pain, that sluggish slow UI response, sometimes there are random unexplained jumps somewhere, no wonder web apps have such a bad reputation. My company forces us to use it, and it is sooo bad.
I am fairly indifferent to Slack - I have to use it for work. But our experiences seem so vastly different: - UI is, with the exception of large media, snappy and pretty native feeling - no jumps (that I can recall) The mobile app is okayish though its offline indication and notifications are a bit frustrating. What machine are you running it on?
Not sure if it might be related to specific instances, i.e. large organizations with hundreds of channels, etc like in my case... still, my workstation is pretty beefy, threadripper pro 7985wx, 256GB RAM, RTX 4080 (and this is no software issue, as other, much more resource intensive apps run just fine)... though slack is unmistakably sluggish, to the point of me being frustrated enough with it to complain about it here :)
just hate it.
Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
#425Hi, 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.…
Sad to hear this, I heard of this extortionist behavior with Heroku before but Slack is unprecedented.
Of all communities I wonder why Hack Club was targeted though. One of the truly good ones.
Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
#426+1 to the other comments recommending Zulip over Mattermost. The threading model is fantastic. Also, for a non-profit teaching coding note that they regularly have interns under the Google Summer of Code program and it's open source, so the students can even help with it. https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizati...
I believe we considered Zulip, but determined it's mobile app to be poor.
Mattermost's mobile app is also pretty bad though.
Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
#427Slack is such a bloated, slow, piece of crap, every single keystroke gives me pain, that sluggish slow UI response, sometimes there are random unexplained jumps somewhere, no wonder web apps have such a bad reputation. My company forces us to use it, and it is sooo bad.
never used the web app, but never noticed any sluggishness with the desktop app. now my company „forces“ me to us Microsoft Teams and i’m thinking back to the good old days with Slack.
I run the desktop app also, but since it's just the electron packaged webapp, I expect no real difference between the two.
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#428I 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.)
Financials are here, not too surprising if sales at Slack saw this they'd charge more
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/812...
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#429> Anyway, we’re moving to Mattermost. This experience has taught us that owning your data is incredibly important, and if you’re a small business especially, then I’d advise you move away too. Sounds about right, sad to hear that it caused so much strife though. Meanwhile, did a bit of a test drive in my org with Mattermost, devs were mostly okay with it, but it was decided from top down to go with Teams instead. Won…
Don't need a decade, I rarely if ever see Teams not malfunctioning daily...
Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year
#430Just another middle-aged SaaS company, with no new ideas, now moving to the bend-your-customers-over-the-table phase, in order to keep ARR increasing.
Sympathetic to the customers, but not surprised.