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Amᵃᵖanda | OSM Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️

Remember that OpenStreetMap group possibly hit by a large slack bill? They've decided it's too much (~$10k) and will switch to the free teir.

10 years of OSM chat history are going away. 😢

osmus.slack.com/archives/C029H
#OpenStreetMap #OSM #FreeSoftware #HistoryRIP #Cassandra

29 January at 9:06 | Open on en.osm.town
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Amᵃᵖanda | OSM Witch 🧙🏻‍♀️

For those behind the login wall, or looking at this after 28th April 2024, this is the message:

Maggie Cawley "\ 17:44 S 88 Hello Slack Friends! Here is an update on the status of this OSM US Slack Workspace. After considering the current options, the ‘workspace will be migrated to Slack's Free Tier by the end of the month. Our nonprofit budget cannot support Slack fees and a pay-per-user structure would distract from our community engagement priorities. Here are a few changes that you will see starting January 31; o Message history will only be saved for 90 days. o Group audio and video chats will be disabled. o Only 10 app integrations are allowed. You will no longer have access to messages or attachments older than 90 days. Please copy any important information out of Slack before January 31st. Slack does not have an option to download your personal message history, but there are third-party options, OSM US will be exporting the message history of all public channels. This data may be posted online as a public archive similar to the OSM Mailing Lists. Please contact @quincylvania if you would like your messages anonymized. It will remain possible to switch back to the paid tier in the future if a sponsor steps forward, at which point the full Slack history would be accessible again. In addition to these changes, OSM US is rolling out a few updates to improve the user experience: e We're adding new default channels: #announcements is for sharing important updates, and #welcome is for new…
29 January at 9:08 | Open on en.osm.town
Rihards Olups

@amapanda What are the chances OSM USA would adopt the same policy as OSMF - specifically, using open platforms and tools for communication?

29 January at 9:23 | Open on mastodon.social
Russ Garrett

@amapanda FWIW, I believe that Slack still stores all the logs (but not uploaded files) for free plans and they can be exported by admins.

But honestly I think it's better if realtime chat is mostly-ephemeral. Nobody wants to read their kneejerk comments from 10 years ago. But it still sucks if people were assuming they could rely on them.

29 January at 9:27 | Open on chaos.social
cos

@amapanda but they still continue on a closed platform owned by a company instead of going to open tools like rest of OSM community..

29 January at 9:28 | Open on fosstodon.org
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