> pay or lose months or years of history.
You can download all your workspace data now, includes chat history.
Chat history on free plan was already limited, so I don’t think anyone who was aware of that was using it as an archive.
You can download all your workspace data now, includes chat history.
Chat history on free plan was already limited, so I don’t think anyone who was aware of that was using it as an archive.
In a small community, and if you're not using it for lots of chit-chat but rather for something focused like scientific research, you can go years and years without reaching 10k messages. So in that circumstance, it's pretty reasonable to have chosen Slack under its old policy. Especially if one wasn't aware of Zulip. ;-)
(I'm one of the Zulip developers.)
I don’t know what kind of scientists you’ve worked with, but I haven’t met any so short-winded
An example is a Python users group where there’s maybe a few threads a week. And it’s really useful to search for old threads.
Another is a hackathon with maybe 30 people where there were a few hundred messages over a week and then 1 message a month.
Interestingly, these led to lots of pie licenses and we’re migrating all these over too.
Once we’re self hosting a server then we don’t need the paid license either.
Seems kind of much for $100/year/user anyway. Teams is bundled in with o365 for nothing or little extra.
I'm glad to hear that you can do a full export though and I am surprised it includes the messages you can't access within the slack client.
https://export.fountstudio.com/
The export is in a proprietary JSON format and only contains links to attachments, plus it has a limit on the number of messages you can export if you don't pay for it. But after jumping through various hoops one afternoon I was able to export all the messages and attachments from a family channel that we've had going for a few years - since our kids were first active on computers. The total number of messages was about 3500, but we would have lost the vast majority of them with Slack's new approach.