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> When a new person joins a company, they have literally years and years worth of searchable content. IF your company is paying to preserve it. At my not-very-

> When a new person joins a company, they have literally years and years worth of searchable content. IF your company is paying to preserve it. At my not-very-tiny employer we only pay for something like 1 year of retention. I have no idea if that's a legal or financial decision, but either way it seems like a dumb one.

learc83 6y ago
Pretty sure that's a legal decision. The cheapest slack plan comes with unlimited backups from what I know.
- fuzzer37 6y ago
  Just curious why this would be a legal decision? I can't think of any reason that keeping messages would be a bad thing.
  - saagarjha 6y ago
    You’re doing something wrong and don’t want it to be subpoenaed?
    - awa 6y ago
      Its more about messages taken out of context or a banter about a competitor between 2 random ICs getting highlighted in a big case.
    - thekyle 6y ago
      I believe the way Slack works is that old messages are kept but hidden unless you pay. So someone could still subpoena the old messages.
  - jhickok 6y ago
    If you are only required to keep data for one year and you keep it for 2 years, you can still be subpoenaed for that 2 year old data if you keep it. Thus, keeping data for longer than you are required is an increased business risk.
- hhh 6y ago
  Definitely legal. In Teams our messages are only retained for 90 days. You have to create a team for messages to be stored permanently. Similar for surveillance footage. Fortune 50
davidwparker 6y ago
This is the exact reason we use Discord at my day job. Unlimited history for free. We still also get plenty of other integrations, webhooks, and bot-building for other automated things.
- trevorishere 6y ago
  Many orgs would be concerned about Discord’s data mining of all chats, though.
spurgu 6y ago
User account retention you mean? This is why I try to shy away from work-related conversations in private messages (only casual chat) and encourage everything to happen in channels, which in turn are preserved.

learc83 6y ago

Pretty sure that's a legal decision. The cheapest slack plan comes with unlimited backups from what I know.

fuzzer37 6y ago
Just curious why this would be a legal decision? I can't think of any reason that keeping messages would be a bad thing.
- saagarjha 6y ago
  You’re doing something wrong and don’t want it to be subpoenaed?
  - awa 6y ago
    Its more about messages taken out of context or a banter about a competitor between 2 random ICs getting highlighted in a big case.
  - thekyle 6y ago
    I believe the way Slack works is that old messages are kept but hidden unless you pay. So someone could still subpoena the old messages.
- jhickok 6y ago
  If you are only required to keep data for one year and you keep it for 2 years, you can still be subpoenaed for that 2 year old data if you keep it. Thus, keeping data for longer than you are required is an increased business risk.
hhh 6y ago
Definitely legal. In Teams our messages are only retained for 90 days. You have to create a team for messages to be stored permanently. Similar for surveillance footage. Fortune 50

davidwparker 6y ago

This is the exact reason we use Discord at my day job. Unlimited history for free. We still also get plenty of other integrations, webhooks, and bot-building for other automated things.

trevorishere 6y ago
Many orgs would be concerned about Discord’s data mining of all chats, though.

spurgu 6y ago

User account retention you mean? This is why I try to shy away from work-related conversations in private messages (only casual chat) and encourage everything to happen in channels, which in turn are preserved.