ricardo: I agree. I'm somewhat surprised we've not been booted yet. Perhaps Clojurians has a significantly lower message rate than reactiflux so we've kept under the radar that way.

I also suspect that keeping the larger communities has an almost insignificant cost. Chances are they were just being kicked because if they weren’t going to become a paying community, why bother having them around? But now that Riot/Matrix are in a state where they are a workable alternative, there’s the extra incentive of not having people’s eye wander.

FWIW, our weekly message count is often around 18,000 — nearly twice the free threshold (and as far as I know, they keep all messages, they only let you search the most recently 10,000). I suspect it’s more that Slack’s capacity has continued to grow and so they don’t need to kick anyone off at the moment.

ricardo: You get used to them if you use them a lot (I try to encourage more people to use them in order to keep individual conversations from clogging up the channels).