novatea

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   by novatea 1y ago

   In Hack Club, a lot. I'm a teen in HC, many projects run for months and have very valuable messages for a long time.
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   by novatea 1y ago

   There are 102,500 members in the Slack right now (though not nearly all are active), and Hack Club is mainly focused on getting teens interested in coding. It needs to be approachable for non-technical teenagers. Also, as someone else said,
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   by novatea 1y ago

   Hack Club had a $5,000/year contract with Slack (renewed in May iirc), but Salesforce just suddenly told them to pay $50,000 within a week and $200,000/year, without warning, or they would deactivate the whole workspace. That&#x27
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   by novatea 1y ago

   I'm in Hack Club, the team is moving all of us to self-hosted Mattermost. It is unfortunate that we have to re-code so many things though.
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   by novatea 1y ago

   Another Hack Club member here, this situation is hard on many of us since we built many of our projects around Slack integration, and we now have to rapidly re-code them so they don't break. It's not great, especially in the middl