I can't really remember why we ended up on slack vs. I can only speak anecdotally, but I'm on a social slack channel with a group of about a couple dozen or so IRL friends it's mainly for shooting the shit, but we'll typically plan both small get-togethers and larger many-months-in-advance events through it (although, with our current usage, messages expire much faster than 90 days already, so we'll actually be benefiting from the retention change). Doing so is at least a first step to preserving Slack as a cultural keystone into the far future in an evolving messaging environment. You could change the update to say "90 days of history, or the most recent 10k messages, whichever is higher." You could even do this silently so you don't need to walk back your posts. All wiped out in the blink of a little rotating gamepad icon.
Some of them might have even made bridges that would have accomplished tremendous social good. So communities will splinter on age boundaries, and opportunities for collaboration will be lost. And Discord, with gaming culture still writ throughout its design system, is a big ask for a non-gamer business professional to take in - Slack is quite correctly designed to be the level of approachable it needs to be. If younger collaborators never experience free Slack and their entire view of professionalism is Discord communities, they'll demand Discord. but more importantly, the world needs a tool that feels native to colleagues and collaborators from all different generations. Because Slack's search is far better designed for documentation-style posts. I want people to be exposed to it when they're working on that side project in college, or when putting something together for a family project.
If anyone from Slack is reading this - I desperately want Slack to be the thing people reach for everything in their professional sphere.
And for every one of these communities that ponies up for Pro, ten will move to Discord. Small open-source projects and ramen-stage startups will lose core operational pins. Families will lose their vacation planning that they started 4 months ago. In an instant, tremendous amounts of history and early documentation for small projects will be wiped out. Agreed - this is an outrageous change for low-traffic groups.
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