[aramsh]

Hack Club was on a grandfathered free nonprofit plan, but switched to a 5k/year on earlier this year under a special deal with Slack. Now the price is increased to 50k one time, and then 200k a year

[fdsfdsfdsaasd]

Why did they switch? Given the information provided, it seems that paying anything, if you're on a grandfathered free plan, is a bad deal.

[aramsh]

Slack moved us off the free plan to the 5k plan, which is fair considering thousands of users; it costs money to host those servers.

[jrochkind1]

There is no obligation to provide the "grandfathered" free plan forever, they could have taken that away too. Presumably they switched to get some features they wanted that weren't on their old plan. Slack can take away the old deal as easy as the new, staying on the old is no guarantee Slack will let you keep it forever.