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Companies that delete slack messages automatically shoot themselves in the foot. Whatever legal exposure you reduce is vastly outweighed by the convenience fact
by cm2012 5y ago
Companies that delete slack messages automatically shoot themselves in the foot. Whatever legal exposure you reduce is vastly outweighed by the convenience factor.
- slyall 5y agoThe companies might night be deleting slack messages automatically. They might just be on the free plan which only shows the most recent 10,000 messages.
- legerdemain 5y agoA company that's a going concern has money to pay for Slack. We have maximum data retention requirements of a legal nature, so we are deleting Slack messages with fully conscious intention.
- KronisLV 5y agoBelieve it or not, some companies out there simply won't pay for Slack and will just use the free tier, which will eat the messages after some time anyways. Of course, if billing or other concerns prevent them from doing this, i fail to see why they don't just use self hosted solutions, like Rocket.Chat, which isn't all that hard to do either. I actually did that myself and wrote about it on my blog: https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/lets-run-our-own-chat-platform https://blog.kronis.dev/tutorials/lets-run-our-own-chat-plat...
- AussieWog93 5y ago>i fail to see why they don't just use self hosted solutions, like Rocket.Chat, which isn't all that hard to do either. I would assume CYA. If a self-hosted, non-industry-standard program went down, the person who set it up would be putting be their balls on the line. If Slack goes down, they can blame someone externally.