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Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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Post by tschellenbach »

casq wrote: post #176

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.…

Happy to help, did you consider https://getstream.io/chat/ ?

You can integrate it into your app at far lower costs. Actually for what you're doing we're happy to sponsor the hosting at no costs.

Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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Post by austin-cheney »

tschellenbach wrote: post #680

Consider building your own (many large communities do). https://getstream.io/chat/ It's super simple to build with Stream and far lower costs than Slack. (i'm the CEO, founder so don't take my word for it). But we have quite a few customers building either communities into their app or large companies running integrated chat workflows. (think airline operations, construction collaboration etc.)

There is also IRC, which has web frontends like KiwiRC.

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tomhow wrote: post #389
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Post by mercanlIl »

freejazz wrote: post #644
casq wrote: post #176

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.…

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Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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Post by hrdwdmrbl »

xnx wrote: post #684

Since no one has mentioned in the thread yet: Slackdump is a great way to dump Slack: https://github.com/rusq/slackdump . Is there any alternative chat system that will import these dumps?

Yes, both Mattermost and Element have tools that can.

(BTW, I tried Element and regretted it (massively lacks polish) before switching to Mattermost and I'm loving it!)

Re: Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

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Post by hrdwdmrbl »

hrdwdmrbl wrote: post #686
xnx wrote: post #684

Since no one has mentioned in the thread yet: Slackdump is a great way to dump Slack: https://github.com/rusq/slackdump . Is there any alternative chat system that will import these dumps?

Yes, both Mattermost and Element have tools that can. (BTW, I tried Element and regretted it (massively lacks polish) before switching to Mattermost and I'm loving it!)

Sorry, you specifically mentioned "these dumps". I don't know about "those" dumps. Mattermost and Element can import everything from Slack, but it might require following their instructions.

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Post by burnte »

nobleach wrote: post #637
xedrac wrote: post #551

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haven't you heard? Sales force doesn't hire programmers anymore. AI is all their CEO needs. ;p. Seriously though, this behavior reminds me of Oracle, and is a great reminder that proprietary software can very quickly become a big liability.

Oracle is exactly who sprang to mind. Throughout my history as a software developer, even Microsoft has had a ton of interest in being involved in the community. Yes, they've wanted to extinguish much of it, when it didn't align with their financial goals... but they were always interested in being part of the "software development conversation". Oracle on the other hand has never extended an olive branch. They're qu…

Marc Benioff is an acolyte of Ellison, he learned and uses the same tactics.
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