It looked interesting to me, but their disnhonesty just threw me back:

> Not a subscription—never expires

> Includes 1 year of free version upgrades

Are you telling me that a third-party slack client will keep working forever without updates? The "not a subscription" message here is effectively moot: this thing will stop working and you will need to pay for "another year of version upgrades".

Those are the two common models of proprietary software distribution - subscriptions or one-off payments. Did you actually expect lifetime updates for $20 - i.e. the benefits of subscriptions for the price of one-off purchase?

It's not promising you to work forever without updates, but also it doesn't force you to pay if you're happy and everything still works.

The big difference here is that nobody should expect this app to continue working without updates.

Contrast this with something like sublime text: years from now you can still expect it to work normally.

What I expect is that if your app will not continue working for a long time then you should not make "lifetime license" one of your selling points unless you are prepared to offer lifetime upgrades too.

I had not seen this, I'm definitely going to try it out. How often do changes made by Slack break it?

Core text chat function has been solid for me the last 2+ years on Ripcord on macos and ubuntu. Image handling, search, notifications, e.g., have varied for Slack and Discord channels.