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The message history is all there, held hostage by Slack. Clearly it's not a burden for them to store it or they would simply delete everything past 10,000 messa

The message history is all there, held hostage by Slack. Clearly it's not a burden for them to store it or they would simply delete everything past 10,000 messages rather than still storing it and reminding me frequently that they have it if I ever decide to pay.

RyJones 6y ago
If you’re an owner of a slack instance, you can export all of the history without paying.
- ReactiveJelly 6y ago
  Export to what? Can I import it into Matrix? I assumed all these SaaSS products are built like carnivorous plants - The spikes only point in. I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless.
  - notatoad 6y ago
    I don't know about matrix, but you can import your slack archive into mattermost. So whatever the export is clearly well-structured enough to be useful. https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html?highlight=slack https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html?hi...
    - RyJones 6y ago
      JSON[0]. Here is the export I did for my employer, Hyperledger. [0]: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive
  - maccard 6y ago
    Here [0] is a link to the slack export documentation. Slack not providing an export to the provider of your choice isn't necessarily slacks issue, it's Matrix's issue. > I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless. I don't think you can infer that all SAAS platforms lock your data because you had a failed attempt with another such tool once. [0] https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-your-workspace-data https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-...
  - RyJones 6y ago
    JSON: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive