Clojurians Log v2

Am I right in understanding that all the lovely conversations archived here are going to start getting lost once we hit the 10,000 message limit?

I believe so

hm, we're already at 18.3k messages. I wonder if that means we're already losing content.

or rather, already lost

I believe so, though the content isn’t quite lost forever

no?

I don’t know how a regular user could access it

But Slack holds onto it

In case we upgrade to the standard plan

Now, I don’t think that will happen

As it’d be at least 4.5k a month

yeah, ouch

maybe there should be a bot in each channel, collecting content to archive elsewhere. Is that against some kind of policy?

But, there is the option in the future of Slack offering something akin to a “User Group Slack” where everything is public, you have to let whoever join, and pay a smaller fee

I’d imagine

But I’ve thought about that too

But even something like adding an outgoing webhook for each channel to some archiving tool seems moderately straightforward

https://api.slack.com/outgoing-webhooks

Oh, but we are also limited to 5 of those on the free slack level

@surreal.analysis: I believe they'll sponsor not for profits, but I don't know if there's a relevant organization for us here.

Maybe just use the web api to poll every few hours https://api.slack.com/methods/channels.history

http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Clojure+Community+Organisation

"You may not use the Slack API to replicate or compete with core products or services offered by Slack. You acknowledge and agree that Slack has or may in the future offer products or services that are similar to your Application, and nothing will prevent Slack from doing so"

@surreal.analysis: it is 11k per month

However we can export the content

trying to work with slack to give reasonable pricing to open source communities

@jcaudle: To get the non profit, we need to be a registered charity

Hmm, out of curiosity how did you get 11k? I thought it was 6.67 / month / user?

Still, Unfortunately more money than I can afford

It is surprising to me that with the rise in slack communities they have not offered free use for open source

chouser: I imagine you could create an account for a bot, connect over IRC, and just log everything?

So, if messages are disappearing, what happens if I add them to a list?