We'd gladly pay, but pricing needs to be different when you have a community that is open to the public and has far, far more users than the size of your company.
Same. I have some slacks with friend groups on the free tier. We'd like to see message history and would pay a bit for it... but the enterprise rates are way too high for random social groups.
I run the Slack community for https://github.com/robusta-dev/robusta
We'd gladly pay, but pricing needs to be different when you have a community that is open to the public and has far, far more users than the size of your company.