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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by e3bc54b2 on Saturday August 27, 2022 @06:33AM (#32617585)
What? Those free users are practically providing free infrastructure testing. Those low-no profit margins are hiding a lot of stuff underneath. Intel and Cloudflare are famous for reaching scale by using cheap/free end of the market to expand and solidify their positions.
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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus by matchagaucho on Sunday August 28, 2022 @09:47PM (#32633984)
Speaking more to the torrent and zombie bot farms, and the abuse of free dynos.

For legit freemium users who to "try before they buy", indeed... it's a sad day for Heroku to lose this audience.

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