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I've been in a few slack communities that were on the freemium plan. On that plan, older messages become in-accessible if you don't pay. They don't get deleted

I've been in a few slack communities that were on the freemium plan. On that plan, older messages become in-accessible if you don't pay. They don't get deleted of course: you will get them back if you switch to a paid plan. But in practice that seems to be rarely interesting. Chat is all about what happened recently and not about what happened weeks/months ago. Ephemeral messages are a good default.

DaiPlusPlus 5y ago
> They don't get deleted of course: you will get them back if you switch to a paid plan. I'm curious what the legality of that is under the GDPR and other preceding data-protection regs... If you're using Slack in a personal capacity, then don't you have the legal right to demand an archive of your messages without paying them anything?
- a_t48 5y ago
  You actually can, without paying. Just use the export button. The restriction is on search and display in the UI.
actuator 5y ago
> Chat is all about what happened recently and not about what happened weeks/months ago. While I agree in principle that email should be used for things that are not ephemeral, chat is used for a lot of things where history becomes important like - A command a coworker pinged you which has some special flags for a build - A doc that was shared with you