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The impossible-to-miss headline says "small teams". I interpret the more detailed description in that context: no arbitrary limit on small team members. No sane
by vsl 11y ago
The impossible-to-miss headline says "small teams". I interpret the more detailed description in that context: no arbitrary limit on small team members. No sane person would argue that 500+ is small team.
The limit in place seems like a technical limitation to me: Slack is for teams, so they figured the number is well above any real-life use and probably applies to paid accounts as well.
- nadams 11y ago> The impossible-to-miss headline says "small teams". Actually when you go to slack.com the first thing you see is: "Slack is a platform for team communication:..." and "Slack is free to use for as long as you want and with an unlimited number of people." With 2 textboxes for me to sign up for the service. Nothing to suggest that slack is for "small teams" only. > The limit in place seems like a technical limitation to me: I don't think you'll get any argument from me - there are only a finite number of CPU cycles, RAM, bandwidth, and hard drive space. But - they should have designed to be a scalable service where all they have to do is spin up some VMs or dedicated systems to increase captivity. Yes - this costs money, but when you offer a free unlimited service - I feel like that's the cost of doing business. > no arbitrary limit on small team members. No sane person would argue that 500+ is small team. They need to clearly define what small team means in their terms of service. The carriers were slapped for the "unlimited is not really unlimited" This is what I found in their TOS: "The total number of users is limited to the maximum number permitted for your account." Which is what exactly? What is the limit for free vs paid?