[oasisbob]

> Slack's data access policy is basically "No."

For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually are.

[Esophagus4]

Yes - and I have never actually needed data access anyway.

I treat Slack as mostly ephemeral, and any real knowledge should be put into source control.

[willbur1230]

they dont let you extract messages via the API. Keeping Slack message data in their walled garden

[ahussain]

Doesn't the conversation.history permission let a Slack bot extract all messages? https://docs.slack.dev/reference/methods/conversations.histo...

[sometdog]

Last May they introduced a new rate limit for that endpoint of 1 request per minute.

[swyx]

you can work around it but i wont say how here because slack is definitely readin gthis

[sadeshmukh]

You can do workspace wide data export