Slack will start deleting old messages
by Huy
In a few days, Slack will delete our messages older than a year old for
the OFB Slack instance.
We have been regularly doing backups/exports of our public OFB Slack
chats using https://github.com/huyz/wayslack/
These exports can be imported into Mattermost or Discord at any time in
the future, for easy browsing (or even migration if Slack ever becomes
dead to us some day).
So this announcement doesn't change anything, since we'll always retain
enduring records in /ofb/git/slack-ofb-auto-export/slack-ofb-pub-archive
However, this does impact you if you're interested in exporting your old
private messages, which only you have access to (not even Slack admins
such as me, since we're not on an enterprise plan).
This email is to let you know that you have a few days to do a
backup/export of your private DMs and still be able to get the full
history since the beginning of the OFB Slack instance.
For more details, go to the #general channel or go directly to
https://github.com/huyz/wayslack/#getting-started to set up your cron job.
Huy
1 week, 2 days