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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by tedggh on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:34AM (#45287959)
Where’s Hack Club located? This seems to have some elements of extortion. It doesn’t matter if you have a contract, they could still be breaking the law. Some of these billing apes aren’t the smartest people. I went through a similar drama with AWS a few years ago and after months of sleepless nights I decided to open a case with the office of the attorney general in my state. They were pretty quick to follow up m and contacted AWS directly. My case was resolved a few days after that.
Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by gruez on Thursday September 18, 2025 @06:45AM (#45288024)
>It doesn’t matter if you have a contract, they could still be breaking the law.

Under what principle? They were near the end of their contract, so there's no legs to stand on. It's not like there's rent controls for SaaS contracts.

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by michabyte on Thursday September 18, 2025 @08:43AM (#45288936)
Hi, Hack Club member + previous summer intern here. Hack Club is incorporated in California and headquartered in Vermont. I am very much not a lawyer and am not speaking for Hack Club in any official capacity, but since California has some ironclad consumer protection laws, I wouldn't be surprised if your idea holds merit. In the meantime, a self-hosted fork of Mattermost is our only realistic option for maintaining comms after Monday that suits all our needs.