Designing Slack Message Retention: A Minimal Architecture Note
Define a configurable age limit, run a background job to delete old messages, enforce UI limits, and verify via logs.
ReadMeFeed / Community knowledge
Real questions. Useful conversations. Find the people who know your stack.
Define a configurable age limit, run a background job to delete old messages, enforce UI limits, and verify via logs.
Goal is to understand plan-dependent limits for message history accessibility and file upload capability, and how retention policy behavior interacts with compliance features. Slack documentation describes varying message history windows by plan and plan-dependent file upload limits. Paid plans can configure retention policies to automatically delete message