Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by nine_k on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:17PM (#45284851)

This is pretty sad. It sounds like emotion-driven FOMO than reason-driven decision-making. Or maybe CYA-driven decision-making ("migrated infrastructure to AWS", nobody ever was fired for buying AWS!).

I would very much understand it if the reasons given were like "We miss the following capabilities that our competitors have: ...", or "We have trouble interoperating with key partners", etc. These would be actually good reasons to pay more, and risk more.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by gxs on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @11:24PM (#45284917)

Yeah that’s what I thought I said - that sometimes it’s legitimate need, sometimes it’s not, and sometimes it’s...complicated.

I don’t think this phenomenon is unique to software - there are people who redo their kitchens every year because they can and people who are doing it for the first time in 30 years - it’s just what it is

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