[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-en-\u002Fslack-alternatives":3},{"page":4,"surround":1039},{"id":5,"title":6,"authors":7,"badge":10,"body":11,"date":1020,"demo-cta":1021,"description":1022,"extension":1023,"genre":1024,"heroOrder":1025,"icp":1025,"image":1026,"meta":1027,"navigation":1028,"no-translate":1021,"path":1029,"rank-country":1025,"rank-keywords":1030,"rank-tag":1034,"seo":1035,"stem":1036,"updated":1037,"video":1025,"__hash__":1038},"blog\u002Fblog\u002Fslack-alternatives.md","Slack alternatives for teams that work across languages (2026)",[8],{"name":9},"The Mind.com Team","Buyer's guide",{"type":12,"value":13,"toc":1002},"minimark",[14,18,27,30,54,57,60,65,68,102,105,109,112,157,164,168,210,213,217,254,257,261,264,301,304,308,333,336,340,368,371,375,378,402,405,409,412,479,486,488,492,716,718,722,769,773,800,802,806,811,818,823,826,831,834,839,842,847,850,855,858,860],[15,16,6],"h1",{"id":17},"slack-alternatives-for-teams-that-work-across-languages-2026",[19,20,21,22,26],"p",{},"Search \"Slack alternatives\" and the lists agree with each other: number of integrations, the 90-day history cap on the free plan, huddle quality, price per seat. Useful if Slack's bundle is your problem. Useless if your actual problem is that ",[23,24,25],"strong",{},"your team's channels carry more than one language"," — the standup thread, the customer channel, the decision typed at 11 pm in a language half the team reads slowly — because on those lists every alternative is the same product: a space that assumes everyone shares a language.",[19,28,29],{},"This is the other comparison. If you're leaving Slack (or deciding not to) because a Kraków engineer, a São Paulo account manager and a Jakarta support lead share one channel, four axes decide the purchase — and none of them is the emoji picker:",[31,32,33,39,44,49],"ol",{},[34,35,36],"li",{},[23,37,38],{},"Messages: does each member read the channel in their own language — automatically, or one message at a time on request?",[34,40,41],{},[23,42,43],{},"Calls: does every participant hear the huddle or meeting in their own language, or does someone hold a plan that the rest don't?",[34,45,46],{},[23,47,48],{},"Afterwards: what does the history look like a month later — and in whose language?",[34,50,51],{},[23,52,53],{},"Where it lives: can you name the jurisdiction the messages, files and recordings sit in?",[19,55,56],{},"Here is Slack's own baseline on those axes, then the alternatives people actually evaluate — Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat, and the self-hosted set Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Element and Nextcloud Talk — then us, with one table across all of them. Every competitor fact comes from the vendor's public documentation, checked August 2026, linked in the footer.",[58,59],"hr",{},[61,62,64],"h2",{"id":63},"the-baseline-what-youd-be-leaving","The baseline: what you'd be leaving",[19,66,67],{},"Slack's documentation is unusually precise about its fences:",[69,70,71,81,87,93],"ul",{},[34,72,73,76,77,80],{},[23,74,75],{},"Messages:"," \"Translate message\" is an AI feature on the ",[23,78,79],{},"Business+ and Enterprise+"," plans. You set a translation language in your preferences and translate a message on request; \"translations are only visible to you, so other people will always see the original message.\" Free and Pro have no translation feature.",[34,82,83,86],{},[23,84,85],{},"Calls:"," huddles carry audio, video and screen sharing — group huddles on Business+ and Enterprise+, 1:1 on Free and Pro. The AI feature guide lists translation for messages, not for huddle audio.",[34,88,89,92],{},[23,90,91],{},"Afterwards:"," on the Free plan you choose between keeping messages for one year or deleting them after 90 days; \"on paid plans, data is kept for the lifetime of your workspace by default\", with custom retention for owners. Exporting is an owner\u002Fadmin action — public channels on Free and Pro, private channels and DMs on Business+ with approval — as JSON in a ZIP; members can't export their own messages.",[34,94,95,98,99,101],{},[23,96,97],{},"Where it lives:"," data residency is a ",[23,100,79],{}," feature, with Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich and London documented for Europe; messages, canvases, files and the search index are covered, member profiles and usage analytics are not. A Data Processing Addendum is available, executed via a form.",[19,103,104],{},"So a Slack channel where three languages meet is workable from Business+ up — each reader translates on request — while the stored channel stays in the language each message was written in, and the calls stay untranslated. If that shape fits your team, staying is a defensible choice. The question is what the alternatives change.",[61,106,108],{"id":107},"microsoft-teams","Microsoft Teams",[19,110,111],{},"The alternative on every list, and the one with the most language machinery:",[69,113,114,119,142,152],{},[34,115,116,118],{},[23,117,75],{}," a chat or channel message is translated on request or automatically — \"Teams can automatically translate received messages\" — in 100+ languages, on desktop and mobile, with no plan or license named for it; an admin can switch it off. The article doesn't state that translated text is saved.",[34,120,121,123,124,127,128,131,132,135,136,141],{},[23,122,85],{}," translated captions in 31 languages need the ",[23,125,126],{},"organizer's Teams Premium or Microsoft 365 Copilot license","; the ",[23,129,130],{},"Interpreter agent"," — synthetic translated speech in 10 languages — is licensed ",[23,133,134],{},"per listener"," and metered at 20 hours per user per month, in scheduled meetings only. Captions aren't saved; recordings keep original audio. Details: ",[137,138,140],"a",{"href":139},"\u002Fblog\u002Fteams-live-translation","Teams live translation",".",[34,143,144,146,147,151],{},[23,145,91],{}," each message stays in the language it was written in; retention policies can delete chats for everyone in a conversation, and there's no Export button for members — admins export through Graph APIs or eDiscovery (",[137,148,150],{"href":149},"\u002Fblog\u002Fexport-teams-chat","how to export a Teams chat",").",[34,153,154,156],{},[23,155,97],{}," Teams data \"resides in the geographic region associated with your Microsoft 365 or Office 365 organization\"; country residency is for new tenants only; the EU Data Boundary covers Microsoft 365 tenants signed up in EU\u002FEFTA, with documented exceptions.",[19,158,159,160,141],{},"Against Slack, Teams moves message translation from Business+ to everyone, and puts the call layer behind Copilot seats. The full comparison from the other side: ",[137,161,163],{"href":162},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmicrosoft-teams-alternatives","Microsoft Teams alternatives",[61,165,167],{"id":166},"google-chat-with-meet","Google Chat (with Meet)",[69,169,170,179,196,201],{},[34,171,172,174,175,178],{},[23,173,75],{}," ",[23,176,177],{},"Automatic Translation"," converts incoming messages \"to your preferred language set in your Google account settings\"; \"this feature requires an eligible Google Workspace or Google AI plan\", and \"translated messages are only visible to you\". It covers the languages of Google's Neural Machine Translation model.",[34,180,181,183,184,187,188,191,192,141],{},[23,182,85],{}," Meet's speech translation runs ",[23,185,186],{},"between English and five languages, one language pair per meeting",", as a ",[23,189,190],{},"90-minute beta",", unavailable in recordings. Details: ",[137,193,195],{"href":194},"\u002Fblog\u002Fgoogle-meet-live-translation","Google Meet live translation",[34,197,198,200],{},[23,199,91],{}," history per the admin's retention settings, in the original language.",[34,202,203,205,206,209],{},[23,204,97],{}," data regions — ",[23,207,208],{},"the United States or Europe"," — on Business Standard and Plus, Enterprise, Frontline and Education editions; Chat messages, attachments and room names are covered.",[19,211,212],{},"Against Slack, Google Chat trades on-request translation for automatic translation on the reader's side — on an eligible plan — and adds an English-anchored call layer.",[61,214,216],{"id":215},"zoom-team-chat-with-meetings","Zoom Team Chat (with Meetings)",[69,218,219,232,245],{},[34,220,221,223,224,228,229,141],{},[23,222,75],{}," translated on request — \"click the ellipsis icon… Click Translate. The message will be replaced by the translation\", ",[225,226,227],"em",{},"Show Original"," to revert — in 38 languages. Prerequisites: message translation enabled by the admin, and ",[23,230,231],{},"Advanced Chat Encryption disabled",[34,233,234,236,237,240,241,141],{},[23,235,85],{}," translated captions in 36 languages on Business Plus and Enterprise-tier plans (add-on otherwise); the ",[23,238,239],{},"Voice translator"," — synthetic translated audio in five languages — via the Live Translation add-on, desktop only. Details: ",[137,242,244],{"href":243},"\u002Fblog\u002Fzoom-live-translation","Zoom live translation",[34,246,247,249,250,253],{},[23,248,97],{}," Zoom's ",[23,251,252],{},"EU Infrastructure"," \"hosts accounts for EU Education and Enterprise customers\", covering Meetings, Webinar, Chat and Phone; within it, Zoom \"does not transfer outside of or access data from outside this infrastructure unless a prior agreement with a customer is in place\".",[19,255,256],{},"Against Slack, Zoom's shape is Slack's shape with different numbers: per-reader translation on view, voice behind an add-on, residency behind the enterprise tier.",[61,258,260],{"id":259},"mattermost","Mattermost",[19,262,263],{},"The open-source, self-hosted answer on most Slack-alternative lists — its own product page is titled that way — and since spring 2026 it has a translation feature:",[69,265,266,290,295],{},[34,267,268,174,270,273,274,277,278,281,282,285,286,289],{},[23,269,75],{},[23,271,272],{},"Automatic channel translation"," (beta, introduced in v11.5) on ",[23,275,276],{},"Enterprise Advanced",": back-end is ",[23,279,280],{},"LibreTranslate"," (\"a self-hosted, open-source machine translation engine\") or ",[23,283,284],{},"Agents"," (\"the Mattermost Agents plugin with a configured LLM backend\"); an admin sets the ",[225,287,288],{},"Languages allowed",", and \"a worker picks up the post and translates it sequentially into each configured target language\". A user's target language \"is determined by their Mattermost display language\".",[34,291,292,294],{},[23,293,85],{}," calls are a Mattermost feature; the auto-translation documentation covers channel posts.",[34,296,297,300],{},[23,298,299],{},"Afterwards \u002F where it lives:"," translated posts are produced on your own server; Professional and Enterprise are self-hosted annual seat licenses, prices on request; a single-tenant Mattermost Cloud Enterprise exists.",[19,302,303],{},"Against Slack, Mattermost moves both the jurisdiction question and the translation question onto your own hardware — at the Enterprise Advanced tier, in beta, with you running the engine.",[61,305,307],{"id":306},"rocketchat","Rocket.Chat",[69,309,310,319,324],{},[34,311,312,314,315,318],{},[23,313,75],{}," with Auto-Translate enabled per room, \"messages you receive in that room will be automatically translated into your selected language\"; \"each user receives translations based on their own selected language\". Providers: ",[23,316,317],{},"DeepL, Google Translate, Microsoft Translator, LibreTranslate",", with credentials the workspace administrator supplies — so message text transits the provider you chose, unless it's LibreTranslate on your own host.",[34,320,321,323],{},[23,322,85],{}," through integrations documented for the Starter plan — Jitsi, BigBlueButton, Pexip, Google Meet, Zoom.",[34,325,326,328,329,332],{},[23,327,299],{}," the ",[23,330,331],{},"Starter"," plan is free, \"self-managed, self-hosted\", \"for technical evaluation or small teams of up to 50 users\"; paid tiers are Commercial, Government and Defense — on-premises, private cloud or air-gapped — priced on request; the former Pro plan was retired on April 29, 2026.",[19,334,335],{},"Against Slack, Rocket.Chat gives each member their own reading language inside the room as a standard feature, at the cost of running the server and holding a translation-provider key.",[61,337,339],{"id":338},"element-matrix","Element (Matrix)",[69,341,342,352],{},[34,343,344,347,348,351],{},[23,345,346],{},"Messages and calls:"," \"the entire platform is end-to-end encrypted by default\", including ",[23,349,350],{},"Element Call"," voice and video. No message or voice translation is documented (checked August 2026) — end-to-end encryption by design leaves no server-side place for one.",[34,353,354,174,356,359,360,363,364,367],{},[23,355,97],{},[23,357,358],{},"Community"," is free — \"free of charge frontend and backend\", self-hosted; ",[23,361,362],{},"Enterprise"," is priced per seat per month, self-hosted; ",[23,365,366],{},"Sovereign"," is priced per deployment and air-gapped.",[19,369,370],{},"Against Slack, Element answers the fourth axis as completely as software can — and answers the first two with the original language only.",[61,372,374],{"id":373},"nextcloud-talk","Nextcloud Talk",[19,376,377],{},"\"A fully self hosted, on-premises audio\u002Fvideo and chat communication service\":",[69,379,380,388,397],{},[34,381,382,328,384,387],{},[23,383,85],{},[23,385,386],{},"live_transcription"," app provides live transcription and translation in Talk calls — \"the transcription is done on your own server… while the translation is done using a translation task processing provider\" — with Nextcloud 33, the High-Performance Backend, and an NVIDIA GPU with at least 10 GB VRAM or a 4-thread x86_64 CPU.",[34,389,390,392,393,396],{},[23,391,75],{}," translation goes through Nextcloud's translation API, backed by the ",[23,394,395],{},"translate \u002F translate2"," apps on your server.",[34,398,399,401],{},[23,400,97],{}," \"ideal for on-premises private cloud deployments or hosting with a trusted, local provider\".",[19,403,404],{},"Against Slack, Nextcloud puts every axis on your own hardware, including the GPU that does the transcribing.",[61,406,408],{"id":407},"intermind","InterMIND",[19,410,411],{},"We build for exactly the case the lists skip — a channel whose members read and speak different languages — so here is our side of the same four axes, stated the same way:",[69,413,414,436,453,467],{},[34,415,416,418,419,422,423,426,427,430,431,435],{},[23,417,75],{}," the space is translated for each member as its default behavior — chat and shared notes in ",[23,420,421],{},"23 languages",", documents in ",[23,424,425],{},"30",". No per-message ",[225,428,429],{},"Translate",", no Business+ gate: a member who reads Polish reads the channel in Polish. (",[137,432,434],{"href":433},"\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-many-languages-do-you-support","Why the numbers differ per pipeline.",")",[34,437,438,440,441,444,445,448,449,435],{},[23,439,85],{}," every participant picks their language on joining and ",[23,442,443],{},"hears every speaker in it, simultaneously",", in the speaker's own voice — no English anchor, no per-meeting pair, no per-listener license. ",[23,446,447],{},"Participants pay nothing and need no account"," — a link is enough. (",[137,450,452],{"href":451},"\u002Fblog\u002Ffree-for-participants","Why participation is free.",[34,454,455,457,458,462,463,435],{},[23,456,91],{}," the meeting persists as a channel — chat history readable in each member's language, the recap delivered to signed-in members in theirs, documents in the same space. Your own chats export as a ZIP and restore, on plans with data export — no admin, no approval. (",[137,459,461],{"href":460},"\u002Fblog\u002Fthe-meeting-a-week-later","How much of your meeting still exists a week later"," · ",[137,464,466],{"href":465},"\u002Fblog\u002Fmeeting-recap","Meeting recap",[34,468,469,174,471,474,475,435],{},[23,470,97],{},[23,472,473],{},"EU at every runtime hop"," — translation on our own engine on dedicated servers in France, orchestration in Paris, database in Frankfurt, EU-resident storage; the recap model pinned to an EU provider under zero-data-retention terms; a DPA signed per customer. (",[137,476,478],{"href":477},"\u002Fblog\u002Fwhere-one-intermind-meeting-actually-runs","Where one InterMIND meeting actually runs",[19,480,481,482,485],{},"Quality is published monthly, per language pair, on real traffic — ",[137,483,484],{"href":484},"\u002Fbenchmark"," — because \"our translation is great\" is exactly the claim you shouldn't take from any vendor.",[58,487],{},[61,489,491],{"id":490},"the-comparison-in-one-table","The comparison, in one table",[493,494,495,519],"table",{},[496,497,498],"thead",{},[499,500,501,504,507,510,513,516],"tr",{},[502,503],"th",{},[502,505,506],{},"Messages in each member's language",[502,508,509],{},"Calls: everyone hears their own language?",[502,511,512],{},"Who pays for translation",[502,514,515],{},"History a month later",[502,517,518],{},"Where it can live",[520,521,522,545,566,588,610,631,652,674,695],"tbody",{},[499,523,524,530,533,536,539,542],{},[525,526,527],"td",{},[23,528,529],{},"Slack",[525,531,532],{},"On request, visible only to you; Business+ and Enterprise+",[525,534,535],{},"Not listed for huddles",[525,537,538],{},"Business+ plan",[525,540,541],{},"Original text; Free keeps 90 days or one year; export by owners\u002Fadmins only",[525,543,544],{},"Business+ residency: Frankfurt, Paris, Stockholm, Zurich, London",[499,546,547,551,554,557,560,563],{},[525,548,549],{},[23,550,108],{},[525,552,553],{},"On request or auto on view, 100+ languages; no license named",[525,555,556],{},"Interpreter agent, 10 languages, per licensed listener, 20 h\u002Fmonth; captions 31 (organizer Premium\u002FCopilot)",[525,558,559],{},"Organizer + each listener (Copilot) for voice",[525,561,562],{},"Original text; retention policies delete for everyone; no member export",[525,564,565],{},"Tenant region; EU Data Boundary for EU\u002FEFTA tenants",[499,567,568,573,576,579,582,585],{},[525,569,570],{},[23,571,572],{},"Google Chat + Meet",[525,574,575],{},"Automatic, visible only to you; eligible Workspace or Google AI plan",[525,577,578],{},"Meet: English ↔ 5, one pair per meeting, 90-min beta",[525,580,581],{},"Eligible plan per user",[525,583,584],{},"Original text per retention policy",[525,586,587],{},"US or Europe data regions on Business Standard+",[499,589,590,595,598,601,604,607],{},[525,591,592],{},[23,593,594],{},"Zoom Team Chat",[525,596,597],{},"On request, 38 languages, replaced on view; Advanced Chat Encryption off",[525,599,600],{},"Voice translator, 5 languages, add-on, desktop; captions 36",[525,602,603],{},"Host plan tier or add-on",[525,605,606],{},"Original text",[525,608,609],{},"Zoom EU Infrastructure for EU Enterprise\u002FEducation accounts",[499,611,612,616,619,622,625,628],{},[525,613,614],{},[23,615,260],{},[525,617,618],{},"Auto, server-side into each allowed language (beta); target = display language",[525,620,621],{},"Not covered by the auto-translation docs",[525,623,624],{},"Enterprise Advanced + your LibreTranslate or LLM",[525,626,627],{},"Translated posts on your server",[525,629,630],{},"Self-hosted; single-tenant cloud on request",[499,632,633,637,640,643,646,649],{},[525,634,635],{},[23,636,307],{},[525,638,639],{},"Auto per room, each user's language; DeepL \u002F Google \u002F Microsoft \u002F LibreTranslate via admin key",[525,641,642],{},"Via integrations",[525,644,645],{},"Your provider key; Starter free to 50 users",[525,647,648],{},"Your server, per configured provider",[525,650,651],{},"Self-hosted, dedicated cloud, or air-gapped",[499,653,654,659,662,665,668,671],{},[525,655,656],{},[23,657,658],{},"Element",[525,660,661],{},"Not documented",[525,663,664],{},"Element Call, end-to-end encrypted, original language",[525,666,667],{},"—",[525,669,670],{},"Original, end-to-end encrypted",[525,672,673],{},"Self-hosted; Community free",[499,675,676,680,683,686,689,692],{},[525,677,678],{},[23,679,374],{},[525,681,682],{},"Via the translate apps on your server",[525,684,685],{},"Live transcription on your server + translation via a task provider (GPU\u002FCPU)",[525,687,688],{},"Your hardware",[525,690,691],{},"On your server",[525,693,694],{},"On-premises or a local provider",[499,696,697,701,704,707,710,713],{},[525,698,699],{},[23,700,408],{},[525,702,703],{},"Yes — 23 languages chat and notes, 30 documents, as the default",[525,705,706],{},"Yes — every participant hears every speaker in their language, 23 languages",[525,708,709],{},"Host's plan only; participants free, no account",[525,711,712],{},"Channel history in each member's language; recap to signed-in members; ZIP export by the member",[525,714,715],{},"EU at every runtime hop: France, Paris, Frankfurt",[58,717],{},[61,719,721],{"id":720},"how-to-choose-including-when-not-to-switch","How to choose (including when not to switch)",[69,723,724,730,736,742,748,759],{},[34,725,726,729],{},[23,727,728],{},"Your team writes and calls in one language."," Stay on Slack — or leave for the reasons the other lists cover. A multilingual space solves a problem you don't have.",[34,731,732,735],{},[23,733,734],{},"Translation on request is enough, and you're on Business+ anyway:"," Slack documents it, per reader, with the original stored and residency in a named EU city. No switch needed.",[34,737,738,741],{},[23,739,740],{},"You want message translation for everyone without a plan gate:"," Teams documents it in 100+ languages with no license named; Google Chat does it automatically on an eligible plan; Rocket.Chat does it per room on your server with your provider key. The call layer differs on each.",[34,743,744,747],{},[23,745,746],{},"Nothing may leave your own servers, and you have people to run them:"," Rocket.Chat (free to 50 users), Mattermost Enterprise Advanced (beta auto-translation on your LibreTranslate or LLM), Nextcloud Talk (transcription on your own GPU), or Element if end-to-end encryption outranks translation entirely.",[34,749,750,753,754,758],{},[23,751,752],{},"Free:"," Rocket.Chat Starter and Element Community are free to self-host; Slack's Free plan keeps 90 days or one year of history without translation; InterMIND is free for every participant — guests join by link, the host's plan covers the room, and the ",[137,755,757],{"href":756},"\u002Fdemo","live demo"," needs no signup.",[34,760,761,764,765,768],{},[23,762,763],{},"The channel itself is multilingual"," — members replying to each other in three languages, guests without your licenses, a team that needs to reread last month's decision in their own language, and a compliance officer who wants a jurisdiction they can name: that's the case we built ",[137,766,408],{"href":767},"\u002Fmeetings"," for.",[61,770,772],{"id":771},"see-it-instead-of-reading-about-it","See it instead of reading about it",[69,774,775,783,791],{},[34,776,777,782],{},[23,778,779],{},[137,780,781],{"href":756},"Try the live demo"," — no signup; speak, and hear the room translated per listener in any of 23 languages.",[34,784,785,790],{},[23,786,787],{},[137,788,789],{"href":484},"See the benchmark"," — per-pair, monthly translation quality on real traffic, with the methodology public.",[34,792,793,799],{},[23,794,795],{},[137,796,798],{"href":797},"\u002Fcompare","Compare feature-by-feature"," — InterMIND against each platform, every competitor cell sourced.",[58,801],{},[61,803,805],{"id":804},"faq","FAQ",[19,807,808],{},[23,809,810],{},"What is the best Slack alternative for a multilingual team?",[19,812,813,814,817],{},"It depends on which axis is broken for you. If reading messages in your own language on request is enough, Slack already does that on Business+, Teams does it for everyone, and Google Chat does it automatically on an eligible plan. If the ",[225,815,816],{},"call"," must reach every participant in their language, the documented options narrow fast: Teams' Interpreter (10 languages, per-listener Copilot license), Meet's speech translation (English ↔ 5, one pair), Zoom's Voice translator (5 languages, add-on), Nextcloud on your own GPU, or InterMIND (23 languages, every participant, host's plan covers everyone).",[19,819,820],{},[23,821,822],{},"What are some good alternatives to Slack?",[19,824,825],{},"Microsoft Teams, Google Chat, Zoom Team Chat for bundled platforms; Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, Element and Nextcloud Talk for self-hosted ones; InterMIND for a space translated for every member. The fences that matter for a team across languages are in the table above — plan gates, per-reader vs for-everyone, what the stored history looks like, and where it lives.",[19,827,828],{},[23,829,830],{},"Who is Slack's biggest competitor?",[19,832,833],{},"On the bundled side, Microsoft Teams — it's the alternative every list opens with, and the one whose documentation covers the most language machinery (message translation for everyone, meeting translation per Copilot seat). On the self-hosted side, Mattermost and Rocket.Chat both title their product pages as Slack alternatives and both now document automatic channel translation.",[19,835,836],{},[23,837,838],{},"What are some free alternatives to Slack?",[19,840,841],{},"Rocket.Chat Starter (self-hosted, up to 50 users, auto-translate with your own provider key), Element Community (self-hosted, end-to-end encrypted, no translation), and Nextcloud Talk (self-hosted). Slack's own Free plan keeps 90 days or one year of history and has no translation. InterMIND is free for participants — guests join by link without an account; the host's plan covers the room.",[19,843,844],{},[23,845,846],{},"Does Slack translate messages?",[19,848,849],{},"On Business+ and Enterprise+: set a translation language in your preferences, then translate a message on request; \"translations are only visible to you, so other people will always see the original message.\" Free and Pro plans don't include it. Huddle audio isn't listed as translated.",[19,851,852],{},[23,853,854],{},"Can I export my Slack history when I leave?",[19,856,857],{},"Exporting is an owner or admin action, not a member's: public channels on Free and Pro, private channels and DMs on Business+ with approval, as JSON in a ZIP. On the Free plan, messages older than 90 days (or one year, depending on the setting) are already gone. 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