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Result would be a definition of “active” specifically crafted to describe teams Plausible that Slack had its own version of the Clack conversation above. We were not in the room when Slack put together their announcement, but it seems Organizations will benefit from the change!

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Segments), the press announcement can state that more than half of Clack’s free That send 3,000+ messages in 90 days as “active” (just the blue and green What can be done, and a new analysis is proposed: if you only count the teams Or perhaps only teams sending about one message aĭay or more should be considered active (excluding the red segment) - in thatĬase, 11% of active organizations would benefit.īut Clack’s marketing team isn’t happy with that! They ask the analytics team Teams (the grey segment) should be excluded from the analysis, bringing the Just 7% of teams will benefit from Clack’s policy change, but perhaps inactive Let’s say you’ve got a team chat app called “Clack” that’s changing from aġ0,000 message access policy to a 90 day message access policy, with the Marketing claim: what exactly is an “active” team? There’s one unanswered question that is central to understanding Slack’s The change, why would Slack’s free plan users be leaving in droves? If, as Slack claims, “the majority of active free teams” benefit from Well accelerate when users start experiencing the impact of Slack’s policyĬhange in September. Slack’s July 18 announcement! And this is still early days, as the exodus may Zulip Cloud increase an incredible 40x since We have seen data imports from Slack into Organizations migrating to Zulip canĪnd other popular team chat tools. We know this because we run Zulip, an open-sourceĪlternative to Slack. Moreover, many teams have decided to abandon Slack altogether. Nevertheless, social media is abuzz with messages from users upset about thisĬhange, and one would be hard-pressed to find any who are excited about it. Message history with the new 90-day limit compared to the previous limit. The majority of our active free teams will have access to more of their Slack is marketing the change as a “simplification”, which will benefit most :-(- James Bennett Saxon AugUnderstanding the impact: the numbers God dammit ! This change to 90 days REALLY SUCKS for SMALL teams!!!! By doing this you have OBLITERATED small family projects or other LONG term but brief sync up groups! I have recommended Slack for almost any project! I can't do that anymore. Including ones that have been happily using Slack’s free plan for years. But it is in fact aĭramatic change that makes Slack’s free plan untenable for many organizations, Īt first blush, this might look like a minor policy tweak. Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving fullĪccess to the past 90 days of message history and file storage. Starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan willīe limited to just the past 90 days of message history. Subscribe Announcements Why Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus Tim Abbott

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