Is there any way to save/export slack data on free plan? I think there are some bots that admins can set up , not sure if any are being used here.

Yes Abhi, I am able to download a dump of slack data manually for the weekly newsletter. I am curious why you brought this up.

There are numerous useful slack threads that are present across channels. I have saved some of those for future reference, but since the workspace is on the free plan, some of these threads are now no longer available (due to 10K message limit) I assume. It would be helpful if there is a way to download slack threads of interest for future reference.

^Yeah this is why I had discussed switching to discord, but discord doesn't have threads (yet) which can make conversations chaotic.

For crucial information from #finance I've started screenshotting threads or copying content in my notes. It's not a great solution but works when I have to go back and reference old material. Other than discord, Circle.so is also a good option. Their paid plans are quite reasonably priced.

@calm-grass-85557 precisely the reasons TJ mentioned. There are bits of useful info/links and I often find myself pasting it into a google doc

Can you make the slack dump available to all?

Hey Abhi, I am not comfortable with the idea of sharing it publicly. But happy to share it with someone if they have a clear idea of what they would ship with this data.

@calm-grass-85557 If possible I would be super interested to join this discussion. We’re maintaining a slack archiver bot for some large slack communities (10,000+ members) and are also working on some related things!! 🙏

Hi Mitesh, Let me set up something for next Friday (and invite all of the folks on this thread). Curious to see what you're working on.

Sounds great! 🙂

Hey folks in this thread, Can we have a Zoom call tomorrow at 4 pm about how we could solve the problem of making slack threads accessible. Use emojis to vote.

Sorry missed your message. Did you guys discuss this?

Hey Abhi, @faint-energy-11966, @bulky-london-83323 and I did meet on Zoom. We do have some clarity on how to proceed. @bulky-london-83323 and I are going to work on PoCs in our individual capacity and then we will compare notes. Btw here's what I recorded 📝 • Privacy ◦ Anonymise data - username, profile pic (good to have) - (Optin / Optout) ◦ Behind a slack auth - Avoid rogue elements • Search solution (must-have) ◦ Typesense - https://github.com/typesense/showcase-linux-commits-search (Does Typesense support linking between thread messages) ◦ Postgres - native search features • Thread view in a modal (must-have) • Build a PoC in 1 month (parallel) • Manual effort of dumping slack data into Postgres ( doesn’t need to run on auto-pilot) • Open-source (How comfortable are we with Slack raising concern over our little search app)

I hacked a bit over the weekends, got a rough PG schema and channels.json import working! Link to schema file if it helps: https://github.com/oxalorg/clojurians-log-v2/blob/main/schema.sql Next I'm trying to get users.json import and then messages import 🙂

@calm-grass-85557 @bulky-london-83323 Came across this search tool. Would it be useful in our use case? https://github.com/meilisearch/MeiliSearch