Hi, I’m Christina, cofounder of Hack Club

Isn't changing the terms of a deal without even sending you a new contract pretty much illegal anywhere sane? Even between business entities?

If you have a bunch of coders, just scrape the data. Then turn your back on this greedy maw. We recently moved to Mattermost for the same reason. Not looking back.

Sad to hear this, I heard of this extortionist behavior with Heroku before but Slack is unprecedented. Of all communities I wonder why Hack Club was targeted though. One of the truly good ones.

I would suggest emailing Benioff directly, an EA will screen the emails and route them to the appropriate person but I believe the charity angle might get it in front of him, and probably get the fee waived When I worked there, weirder emails ended up getting addressed.

“For anyone reading this, we would really appreciate any way to contact people at Salesforce to discuss time to migrate” You said someone had called you. Why is that person not your point of contact? Was it your account executive? Are they not returning your calls? When they called you with this ultimatum, what was their response when you asked why you weren’t given longer notice?

Consider an XMPP server. Make it a Hack Club project. Never tether to BigCorp if you're flexible enough to DIY.

> Then, suddenly, they called us 2 days ago and said they are going to de-activate the Hack Club Slack Is there not the option to go back to the free version with 90 days of history?

This makes me sad, maybe the next hackathon should be to engineer a scraper/RPA frankenmonster that scrolls through all slack history one page at a time, scrapes/screenshots all conversations and port them to another piece of software. Fight a monster with a frankenmonster.