Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year

Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by Dylan16807 on Thursday September 18, 2025 @12:33PM (#45291715)

Saying that only the 50 workers need to pay $100 a year, and not all the program participants, is a perfectly reasonable amount of money to pay for a chat server.

It doesn't matter that an alternate method of counting would be a lot more. They paid a reasonable amount for what they got.

$200k for this service is a joke, not the 'real' price.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by lelanthran on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:21AM (#45298849)

> Saying that only the 50 workers need to pay $100 a year, and not all the program participants, is a perfectly reasonable amount of money to pay for a chat server.

Then they should have chosen a chat server that has that as the business model.

The decision maker didn't. They chose a product that did not offer that option, then negotiated the $200k down to $5k.

Slack was obviously unsuitable for them because Slack does not offer what they wanted (free for non-employees), but the decision maker blundered on. And now they want sympathy.

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Re:Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year by Dylan16807 on Friday September 19, 2025 @03:35PM (#45305536)

> Then they should have chosen a chat server that has that as the business model.

> The decision maker didn't. They chose a product that did not offer that option, then negotiated the $200k down to $5k.

And in doing so Slack added that business model. And seemed happy about it.

> Slack does not offer what they wanted

They offered it to them.

> And now they want sympathy.

They deserve plenty of sympathy for Slack not giving them any reasonable warning as they torpedoed the deal. And it's not like they were draining Slack's resources or doing anything that made this an emergency.

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