Slack Imposes 90-Day Cut Off On Free Accounts

Slack is tightening up its terms for free account holders, restricting archives to 90 days of communication.

Under its current terms, free Slack workspaces are limited to 10,000 messages and 5GB of file storage. From 1 September that will change to a flat 90-day archive, meaning any messages or files older than three months will be expunged from the service (unless the customer decides to convert to a paid subscription).

Slack insists the new rules will actually benefit most customers. “The majority of our active free teams will have access to more of their message history with the new 90-day limit compared to the previous limit,” the company claims in a blog post announcing the new terms.

“No matter how much your free team uses Slack, you’ll always have access to 90 days of history.”

Subscription price hike

Slack’s new rules for free account holders come at the same time as price increases for paying subscribers.

Also from 1 September, subscription prices will rise from $8 per user to $8.75 in the U.S. In the U.K, prices are jumping from £6.30 per user to £7.

The company is offering existing subscribers the chance to lock in the old prices for a year if they commit to an annual subscription.

Slack became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Salesforce last year.