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For me, this is a knock against basically anything Slack related. Slack 100% has the power to ensure that Astro is around long enough for all parties to make a
by SkyPuncher 8y ago
For me, this is a knock against basically anything Slack related. Slack 100% has the power to ensure that Astro is around long enough for all parties to make a proper transition to appropriate solutions.
I get they want to keep Astro's clients around, but it's a big FU to companies that rely on Astro to have two weeks notice about changes potentially affecting their entire users base.
- jlawer 8y agoI agree. I've been nervously watching slack as a current Hipchat user, working out what our next move is (pretty much Slack or Microsoft Teams seemed the saner choices), and this makes me want to have nothing to do with them. It reeks of arrogance. Sure I understand it was a acquihire, but that means you acquired the company and take on their obligations including moral. An it is poor form to dump customers / users out when they likely could have kept the services up for at least 3 months. If slack doesn't care about that, then I am not sure this is a business I really want to have a dependency on.