alt Hacker News> Slack's data access policy is basically "No."
For being a blog post about problems with Slack's policies, it's odd that it has no details whatsoever on what the issues actually are.
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willbur1230 • yesterday at 11:13 PM
they dont let you extract messages via the API. Keeping Slack message data in their walled garden
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Yes - and I have never actually needed data access anyway.
I treat Slack as mostly ephemeral, and any real knowledge should be put into source control.