Changes to Kubernetes Slack (Kubernetes Contributors blog)

The Kubernetes project has announcedthat it will be losing its "special status" with the Slack communication platform and will bedowngraded to the free tier in a matter of days:

On Friday, June 20, we will be subject to the featurelimitations of free Slack. The primary ones which will affect uswill be only retaining 90 days of history, and having to disableseveral apps and workflows which we are currently using. The SlackAdmin team will do their best to manage these limitations.

The project has a FAQcovering the change, its impacts, and more. The CNCF projects staffhas proposeda move to the Discord service asthe best option to handle the more than 200,000 users and thousands ofposts per day from the Kubernetes community. The Kubernetes SteeringCommittee will be making its decision "in the next few weeks".