Slack announced a significant change to its platform, saying it will "begin deleting messages and files more than one year old from free workspaces on a rolling basis."

Slack announced a significant change to its platform, saying it will “begin deleting messages and files more than one year old from free workspaces on a rolling basis.”

  • parpolEnglish
    153·
    10 months ago

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      • purplemonkeymadEnglish
        3·
        10 months ago

        This change has basically no effect for anyone on a free workspace. Since you can’t read those messages anyway. It only matters if you were going to go paid.

        I think it’s more likely that slack has decided that all free workspaces that would upgrade, probably have, and they don’t want to store all those messages that aren’t going to be read anyway.

  • NotNotMikeEnglish
    5·
    10 months ago

    Kind of wild that in the face of competition from Discord they double down on their paid plans. I would have thought they would eventually improve their free offerings to compete for market share, but clearly they have no interest in supporting hobby groups and just want to focus on enterprise