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Slack will delete chats and files from free workspaces at end of August. Slackdump is even better than Slack's built-in export feature because it works without admin access and downloads attachments (e.g. images) in addition to messages. Exports can be browsed offline or loaded into Discord or Mattermost.

After trying some other tools/scripts to export/archive Slack, I was amazed how well Slackdump worked.

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> Slack will delete chats and files from free workspaces at end of August

Are you referring to some deprecation by Slack which affects all free users? Or is it just your 90d retention period elapsing at the end of August?

https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/29414264463635-Up...

Before slack kept the messages and didn't let you see them, but you had rhe option to unlock by paying in future.

In August they will actually delete the data

Huh. Files I understand, but text is so small--it always seemed like such a clever carrot to dangle in front of people, at a cost of practically nothing. "All of this history could be yours."

I used to dump our Slack chats to github every month before we were a paying customer. Works great to keep everything and still share with the team.

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