Pact Foundation

Slack Pro for this pactfoundation Slack:grey_question:

Would it be an option for the pactfoundation to convert/pay for the non-free slack version in order to get access to/search for conversations that are older than 90 days? That could help reduce answering similar questions/issues multiples times and also provide context for other places outside Slack as occasionally people link to conversations/threads in here, which are currently not accessible.

<@U03FPBWFHU5> as we had this conversation before :smile:

We have a mirror to <http://linen.dev|linen.dev>

<https://www.linen.dev/s/pact-foundation>

which is searchable.

It would cost just shy of $46,000 dollars for the year based on 481 active members, as it grows in popularity or Slack change their grading of an active vs inactive user, this may increase. As an open source project, we don’t have that kind of money, and if we did, we would have to seriously consider the value vs cost.

We do have an opencollective account, but this would drained very quickly (at the current monthly cost of Slack Pro, we don’t have enough to cover a months activity)

<https://opencollective.com/pact-foundation>

Sure I understand, so how would we make the connection from links to these slack threads from that archive?

I don’t believe I understand your question properly.

You can share <http://linen.dev|linen.dev> links which will be preserved as there is no time limit. If you share a slack link to a thread in the pact-foundation, it will get lost to the ether after 90 days.

that is the trade-off

So the case I am talking about is: I have a link to a thread in this slack. If that conversation is older than 90 days, I can not access the content. So how can I access this content with from that link within the <http://linen.dev|linen.dev>?

But if I understand your message it means we are just out of luck in that case, which is unfortunate

<https://www.linen.dev/s/pact-foundation/t/23148207/slack-pro-for-this-pactfoundation-slack-grey-question#bc951db5-ba0c-45d8-8537-fc7895dac0ae>

I.e. if I have this link to start with i.e. <https://pact-foundation.slack.com/archives/C5F4KFKR8/p1728470909387109>

You can link existing content if you can find it. slack urls are obfuscated so you can’t reverse engineer

If content is worth preserving it can be placed in the docs faq or in a projects readme or relevant part of the documentation

Ok, so this means the slack links as reference are not useful after 90 days. I just spotted some of those in github issues or so.

Out of curiosity: Could not Smartbear help out here with the costs?