Keybase Exploding Messages

Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by marcus_holmes on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:10AM (#17363599)

I deliberately don't pay for Slack because of this. The 10,000 message limit is perfect for "enough memory to be useful, not enough to be dangerous". I'd love to see it as a feature in other messaging apps (i.e. "permanently erase all messages over 6 months old")

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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by Piskvorrr on Thursday June 21, 2018 @10:33AM (#17365491)

Does Slack actually do that, though? Or just soft-deletes the older messages, hiding them from the UI? (I don't think they make a statement either way)

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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by matthewheath on Thursday June 21, 2018 @01:47PM (#17367501)

My understanding is that it just hides them from the UI; if you upgrade your plan, you get access to all your old messages and files that were previously "gone".

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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by davegardner on Thursday June 21, 2018 @06:49PM (#17369885)

Yes this is correct. In fact even without a paid subscription you can access all files that have been added to a Slack through the web UI (myslack.slack.com/files). You can't see the related messages, but all the files (images, snippets, etc) are available as one big list.

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Re:Keybase Exploding Messages by marcus_holmes on Friday June 22, 2018 @12:48AM (#17371399)

I did not know this. Useful, thanks.

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