[james_pm]

Slack is worse. If you don't pay, not only do they not give you access to >10k messages, but they still store those messages and don't allow you to do things like delete them.

[krrrh]

I never really thought about it before, but the non-deletion might offer Sarbanes-Oxley protection which could lead to publicly traded companies being more tolerant of teams using slack without clearing it through central IT.

[Hamuko]

>and don't allow you to do things like delete them.

How does that work with GDPR?

[Turbots]

It doesn't. Big companies who want to be gdpr compliant buy enterprise Slack and force slack to store the data in European datacenters. Slack doesn't give a shit about gdpr if you're not paying

[nicoburns]

Doesn't that make Slack themselves non-compliant?

[smueller1234]

It probably does. But it requires someone to pick the battle (a customer or an enforcement agency on their own) to get it enforced.

[detaro]

Depends: Do they not delete the data if you explicitly contact them and tell them to do it, or do they just not give you a convenient button in the UI?