Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by linhns on Thursday September 18, 2025 @05:11AM (#45287381)

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.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by IgorPartola on Thursday September 18, 2025 @07:05AM (#45288163)

You mean a chat company that raise $1.3 billion (!!!) and got bought for nearly $28 billion (!!!) is acting greedy?

Slack is IRC with bells and whistles. Like yes I get that group chat is a necessity for today’s workforce. But it is still just group chat, a solved problem from a technical point of view.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by elphinstone on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:22AM (#45287870)

Unprecedented? From this company? Are you serious?

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by linhns on Friday September 19, 2025 @02:13AM (#45298456)

First time I heard this kind of thing for Slack, Heroku got instances before. I know both are owned by Salesforce, just want to make things clear.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by driverdan on Thursday September 18, 2025 @09:54AM (#45289742)

Heroku and Slack are both owned by Salesforce. If they do it with one of their businesses you should expect it with the others.

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