An open letter, or something
    • apenstaartje@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      132·
      20 days ago

      I think the more shocking part is how a company is willing to pay $5000 a month for a chat room. More people need to make self hosted software options To bankrupt these types of people

        • dihutenosa@piefed.socialEnglish
          6·
          20 days ago

          These people pay for the peace of mind - no worrying about backups, power supply, network outages, compliance, retention policy or whatnot.

      • ulterno@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        20 days ago

        Hmm, I don’t know how many people they were serving,
        but with $5k a month, I think I could buy enough hardware to increase concurrent user count by at least 500 every month. And that is including the internet and cooling bill.

  • BigDiction@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    19 days ago

    I’ve seen this in person. You have some great legacy clients who started free to use that are totally disconnected with the pricing structure imagined by the new people who are disconnected with the original purpose of the product.

    Possibly this is some kind of automated function but more realistically in sales:

    Some middle manager looks at the total users 😔/ or maybe active users and tells their sales team to jack the price without any understanding of the account.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    19 days ago

    Update: Slack caved, so they’ll continue not owning their data until Slack tries this shit again and succeeds. jfc