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This might change in the future as Discord tries to recoup their VCs' investment. See GitLab for a recent example.
by cercatrova 4y ago
This might change in the future as Discord tries to recoup their VCs' investment. See GitLab for a recent example.
- TechBro8615 4y agoGitLab is charging for metered compute minutes, which is hardly an unreasonable bargain for users who have been them for free for two years. Slack's feature-gating is disconnected from any unit economics - indeed, they actually do _store_ the messages prior to the most recent 10,000, but they just refuse to index them. The cost of that indexing is relatively minimal and does not scale linearly with number of users.
- cercatrova 4y agoDoesn't matter what the technical justification is, it's a business move, not a tech move. It's about the customer's willingness to pay, and it looks like for Slack, companies are very willing to pay.