[james_pm]

The message history is all there, held hostage by Slack. Clearly it's not a burden for them to store it or they would simply delete everything past 10,000 messages rather than still storing it and reminding me frequently that they have it if I ever decide to pay.

[RyJones]

If you’re an owner of a slack instance, you can export all of the history without paying.

[ReactiveJelly]

Export to what? Can I import it into Matrix?

I assumed all these SaaSS products are built like carnivorous plants - The spikes only point in.

I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless.

[maccard]

Here [0] is a link to the slack export documentation. Slack not providing an export to the provider of your choice isn't necessarily slacks issue, it's Matrix's issue.

> I tried the data export from Asana once and it was useless.

I don't think you can infer that all SAAS platforms lock your data because you had a failed attempt with another such tool once.

[0] https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/help/articles/201658943-Export-...

[notatoad]

I don't know about matrix, but you can import your slack archive into mattermost. So whatever the export is clearly well-structured enough to be useful.

https://docs.mattermost.com/administration/migrating.html?hi...

[RyJones]

JSON[0]. Here is the export I did for my employer, Hyperledger.

[0]: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive

[RyJones]

JSON: https://github.com/hyperledger-archives/slack-archive