What is your workaround for the free version's 90-day messaging/history cap -- when building communities in Slack (that will continue to grow) Main issue I worry about is searching. If someone is looking for answers on something specific within Slack, it will only pull from recent 90-days. Such a bummer.

Hi @Allie Mullen - You mean for a community on Slack?

Yes!

Dots + Notion (private) Notion database (public)

@Joel Primack like copy/pasting or screenshotting key convos and adding there?

Ish, Allie - it’s a process 😅

Following this - I also have this question

Allie M and I were thinking about chatting as it’ll be easier to explain via that then text. Maybe I should record a video + links to tools mentioned to explain the process that I’ve previously used for this. Would that be helpful?

Only if its not a ton of work! were in the really early stages of evaluating what is going to work for some new cohorts, but any advice is appreciated 🙂

I know VC Platform built out their own product integrated into slack where you can search archives across slack and their platform but know that must have taken forever and $$$$

omg I bet.. they worked on that for so long. Did you talk to anyone there about the process yet? Id be curious

I didn’t. My guess is they’d keep their cards close on that but could be wrong

@Allie Mullen & @Allie Kerr - Here’s my audio note loosely explaining the process. And, here’s the link to Dots to learn more about it: https://www.dots.community/ If you have any Qs, feel free to reach out - always happy to explain it further.

@Joel Primack thank you SO much for this -- I really appreciate it. Cool to see they have a free option and going to explore this a bit. May circle back with some questions, but again, thank you!

I’m here anytime, @Allie Mullen 😊

ALSO, to follow up on this thread, our team is now considering biting the bullet and potentially doing the Paid/Pro plan because, you only get billed for active users. Here are the summarized notes from Slack's site + me talking to their customer service -- • When you purchase a paid plan for your workspace, you’ll be billed for active members. Inactive = hasn’t used Slack in >14 days. ◦ Any changes to the number of active members in your workspace will be reflected in your billing statement. ◦ If someone you’ve already paid for becomes inactive, we’ll add a prorated credit* to your account for the unused time. Those credits will be applied toward future payments, such as new members being added to your workspace or your next renewal date. ▪︎ *Note: Credits have no currency or exchange value, are non-transferable and non-refundable, and will expire following the termination of your paid Slack plan ◦ What Slack considers a user active: ▪︎ If an active member goes 14 days without sending or reading messages, they're marked as inactive. ▪︎ They'll be marked active again if they send 10 or more messages in a 7-day period, or if they read channels in any 3 days of a 7-day period.

Thank you Joel!! Allie this is super interesting... that changes the way I was thinking about pricing significantly.

@Allie Kerr RIGHT?

New here and reading through some of the recent “asks.” This move by Slack is precisely why we decided to integrate/migrate our developer workspace into our Discord. There was no budget to pay for an open/public workspace and Discord is essentially free. We also had lots of examples from 100,000+ member developer-centric servers that the idea could work. We cut over on September 1 and haven’t looked back. I deleted the abandoned Slack workspace about two months ago and haven’t looked back. We had a few noisemakers and ultimately we’ve been able to win them over too.