Scribd is the world's largest social reading and publishing site. The aggregate market value of the registrant’s Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value, held by non-affiliates of the registrant (based on $33.42, which was the closing price of a share of the. Hey guys, hope you are doing good, I built a slack app called scrapehoney to solve the following to problems. 1.I worked as an intern for a startup they were scraping data. I was using slack as an internal communication tool. They used to switch tabs between slack and the data scraper app, this takes lots of time and makes users uncomfortable.
I recently launched a Slack group for my podcast, the /Filmcast:
I’m launching an experiment: a Slack group for /Filmcast listeners/fans to talk movies. Want to join? Go to https://t.co/pDGTlTUsjp
— David Chen (@davechensky) January 19, 2017
I used Slack’s free tier, which lets you view 10K of your team’s most recent messages. After just a few days, we’ve already accumulated about 600 members and even crowdsourced a neat spreadsheet with all their podcast recommendations.
Why Are We Moving Off from Slack? The initial and biggest motivation for leaving Slack is the 10k message limit. Any and all messages over this threshold are lost. Had a great answer to a question from a few months ago? It may be gone today. With our ever growing community, a post on Slack could disappear in weeks in the very near future. Slack’s business model is essentially based on historical messages. The free searchable (and viewable limit) is 10.000 messages before you start paying. If you want to find a historical post on.
As the group has continued to expand, I’ve started to wonder about what the group’s maximum size could be, so I went looking for whether or not Slack’s free tier had a user limit. I was dismayed to find freecodecamp’s blog post, So Yeah We Tried Slack… and We Deeply Regretted It, which points out that yeah, there is a limit, despite what Slack’s marketing says:
I woke up this morning to a mountain of tweets and emails from new campers saying they weren’t receiving our automatically sent Slack invites. Not exactly what you want to happen three days after your open source community is featured in Wired Magazine.
Slack’s support team was enthusiastic about helping, and kept saying the email notifications had gone out. In my desperation, I tried to manually send out the invites. That’s when I was confronted with an ominous message: “You have reached the maximum number of users”.
My heart sank. Our contributors had sunk so many hours into building Slack features. We’d endorsed Slack to thousands of people on our Twitch.tv streams, and even mentioned it in interviews with the media. We were heavily dependent on their service.
In a cold sweat, I started googling. There was literally nothing on web saying anything about Slack having a maximum number of users — only marketing material saying that free tier organizations could have as many users as we wanted. Apparently, we were the first community to ever hit Slack’s undisclosed limit.
Slack Free Version
Sounds like the service starts struggling at around 5,000 users and poops out completely after 8,500. This is still a pretty healthy number for any community — I think it will be more than sufficient for my needs — but it’s still a limit that Slack’s marketing does nothing to disclose, despite the fact that the above blog post was written more than a year ago.
So, users hoping to build a massive 10K+ sized community on Slack should look elsewhere before investing a ton of resources into this thing (or until they update their marketing to be more clear on how many users they actually allow).
Update: Evidently the limit has been raised since the above articles were published.
@davechensky That must be new, I’m part of a public slack channel that currently has over 12k members. https://t.co/vqE1KnBFjo
— Johnathan Ludwig (@bum0ntherun) January 20, 2017
Slack 10k Message Limit
Still no word on what the new limit is. I guess there aren’t any communities that invested into Slack’s free tier long enough to find out?