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Re:Ghostty is now non-profit by sundarurfriend on Wednesday December 03, 2025 @06:14PM (#46141622)
> The students have one big global Slack instance.

Are you back on Slack as the primary comms channel after their sudden attempt to upcharge you (followed by the U-turn after the PR backlash)? Do you have some mirroring and other kind of fallback strategy if something like that happens again?

(Context for those who missed it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45283887)

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Re:Ghostty is now non-profit by conradev on Thursday December 04, 2025 @02:19AM (#46144711)
I do not speak for the 'club, but I believe it was resolved: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45292042
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Re:Ghostty is now non-profit by sundarurfriend on Thursday December 04, 2025 @08:03AM (#46147202)
Yes, as I mentioned, Slack made a U-turn after the thread got popular and became a PR disaster (after having ignored the issue again and again previously). That kind of behaviour indicates a service that shouldn't be relied on so much, at least not without low-friction alternates that you keep ready to jump onto, in case some exec there decides again that the Club is too tempting a prize to not attempt another squeeze.
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