Get the latest tech news

Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year


An open letter, or something

For nearly 11 years, Hack Club - a nonprofit that provides coding education and community to teenagers worldwide - has used Slack as the tool for communication. One could argue that Slack is free to stop providing us the nonprofit offer at any time, but in my opinion, a six month grace period is the bare minimum for a massive hike like this, if not more. Essentially, Salesforce (a$230 billion company) is strong-arming a small nonprofit for teens, by providing less than a week to pony up a pretty massive sum of money, or risk cutting off all our communications.

Get the Android app

Or read this on Hacker News

Read more on:

Photo of Slack

Slack

Photo of yr bill increase

yr bill increase

Related news:

News photo

I love Slack's new Lists feature so much I wish it was a standalone app

News photo

Slack will generate thread summaries and AI notes from your huddles now

News photo

Slack gets smarter: New AI tools summarize chats, explain jargon, and automate work