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Hi HN! My friends and I got annoyed with Slack's "Your team has more than 10,000 messages... but you can't see them" nag, and have put together a web app to vie
by vsiden 11y ago
Hi HN! My friends and I got annoyed with Slack's "Your team has more than 10,000 messages... but you can't see them" nag, and have put together a web app to view and search history of a team's channels, with markdown formatting, attachments and emoji.
Slack allows you to export all the history, even beyond the 10k limit. You upload the exported zip, it is parsed and rendered for you to see. It's a simple as this. We want to make Slarck.com a single place to store message archives from different services, even when those services are not used anymore (or discontinued, or switched from). We added HipChat support as well (yesterday :)
Slack's paid plans are not an option, as a lot of my friends (and myself) are bootstrap startuppers, so we'll have to live with the free plan to survive. Lots of Open Source projects can't afford to pay too.
I've seen slackarchive.io, but I can't use it: it's Slack-only, it's bot-based and consumes one of scarce integration slots, and it's upside down! And being bot-based, it can't display past messages.
- exolymph 11y agoI have mixed feelings about this... but Slack does provide the capability of their own volition, and browsing our archive could be very useful to my small Slack community. Thanks!