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Comment by Brajeshwar | Hacker News Reader

I've heard that Slack becomes gigantically costly once you hit certain thresholds. Another big community is moving away from it after spending nearly $0.5M a year just on Slack.

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It's possible to negotiate bulk pricing. The billing is also based on the number of active days per user: https://slack.com/help/articles/218915077-Slacks-Fair-Billin..., so a 5000 member community doesn't necessarily mean they'll have to pay $7.25*5000 every month. But agreed Slack is generally a poor choice to host any non-profit-making organizations due to having to choose between either gated knowledge or allocating a hefty expense.

Discord is the better alternative for now due to the lack of content gating in the free tier but that might change when they become desperate enough with their profitability push.

The free version of slack has no user limits. The paid version is about 8 or 12 dollars a month per active user. You get more features and unlimited history with paid.

Sorry for the lack of replies to the comments. Yes, On Deck and it seems to be spending it each month (not yearly, my mistake). I was looking for a public info of their announcement but could not find it.

> Another big community

Who?

Pieter Levels' Nomad List was one, I recall. They moved to Telegram recently.

OnDeck is also moving away from it

That's right - OnDeck was spending $500k/month on it.

Typo - a year

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