[xpaulbettsx]

> So we have no alternative but to switch.

It seems unlikely that all 5000 people are actively using their Slack account - if you started automatically deactivating accounts that haven't logged in after 3+ months (a pretty easy Cronjob using the API), you would most likely stay well south of the limits. You can always Email people with something to the effect of, "Hey! We've turned off your account, if you visit the site again, we'll turn it back on, no big deal".

[pcr0]

Yeah, but at the current growth rate, they would've easily hit 9000 active (logged in within 3 months) in less than a month

[berkeleytrue]

They where only using slack for two months and hit the limit (of almost 9000).

[pbreit]

The 10,000 message search limit sounds like a nonstarter as well.

Larger groups are playing with that $5/user/month bonfire.