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Connect WhatsApp or Slack. Link the phone that is in the groups, or authorize your Slack workspace.
Turn your community's chat history into a searchable archive.
Years of answers, files, and decisions live in your community's WhatsApp groups and Slack channels, where nobody can find them. Community Archives imports that history into a read-only site with real search, and you decide who can read it.
Free for 7 days. Readers never pay and have nothing to install.
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Built for communities that outlast their chat.
Cycling clubs, parent groups, book clubs, and every other community whose best answers are buried in chat.
Cycling clubsParent groupsBook clubsRunning crewsMakerspacesOpen-source communitiesAlumni groupsFaith communitiesClimbing gymsChoirs and bandsGaming guildsHousing co-opsDog-walking groupsSports leaguesScout troopsGarden clubs
Your community already answered this. Nobody can find it.
Answers scroll away. Every new member starts from zero. Files get re-sent. The archive keeps all of it in one place your members can search.
Sam · just now
Just joined, hi! Where do Sunday rides start?
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Nina Alvarez
Routes & Weather · Jan 2024
Sunday rollout: bridge at 7:00, coffee at mile 28, bail-out option at Crystal Springs.
Dev · 2 min ago
Sorry to ask again, which tubes fit the gravel rims?
Found in the archive
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Priya Shankar
#wrenching · Sep 2023
Restocked the community flat kit: 700x32-45 tubes, two CO2 heads, tire boots, quick links, and nitrile gloves.
three-tubes.pngMaya · 5 min ago
Can someone resend the rain route PDF?
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Nina Alvarez
Routes & Weather · Jan 2024
Rain route card for tomorrow. It keeps us off the creek path, adds one covered regroup, and has bailouts every 6-8 miles.
rain-route-card.pdfThree steps. The import runs in the background.
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Choose what to keep. Pick the groups or channels that belong in the archive. Skip the rest.
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Import available history
Continues in the background
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Give it an address. Every archive gets its own web address. Share the link. New messages keep syncing.
You decide who can read it.
Set it once per archive. Change it any time.
Public
Anyone with the link can read the archive. No sign-in.
Opens for anyone
Members only
Readers prove they are in the WhatsApp group or Slack workspace before they can read anything.
Asks readers to verify with WhatsApp or Slack
Invite only
You invite readers by email. Each invite gets a secure sign-in link.
Asks for the invited email address
Your community's history stays yours.
Read-only. Yours. Not for sale.
Read-only.
Community Archives never sends messages back into WhatsApp or Slack.
Yours.
Export or delete the archive whenever you want. Ask by email.
Not for sale.
No. Not as training data, not to advertisers, not aggregated, not anonymized. We make money from subscriptions. Full stop.
If you were added to an archive
Nothing to install
No app and no new password. Members open a link.
Your one-to-one chats stay out
One-to-one message content is not archived.
Your phone number stays hidden
A member's raw phone number is never shown to other members.
Your messages, on request
Ask for deletion, correction, access, or a copy of your data by email: aleks@community-archives.com
What each source lets you keep.
EarlierYou connectToday
WhatsApp
From the day a member joins
Someone who joins the group today cannot scroll back to what was said before they joined.
Slack
The last 90 days on a free plan
Slack's free plan hides messages older than 90 days.
Community Archives
What your source still shows when you connect, and everything after.
The archive keeps whatever history your source hands over on the day you connect, then everything from then on.
More sources are coming.
One plan. Per archive.
The admin pays one predictable monthly price.
$9.99USD / month
Up to 250,000 messages and 5 GB of media per communityConnect up to four sources: two WhatsApp sources and two Slack workspacesNew messages keep syncing
7 days free. Add a card when you go live; billing starts after the trial unless you cancel.
Need more than 5 GB of preserved media? Contact us for custom capacity. There are no automatic overage charges.
Hey stranger,
I built Community Archives because I was frustrated seeing years of useful conversations in my community groups getting lost.
I run this project independently, and I want it to last. You're trusting me with things that can't be re-created, so I take that seriously.
I charge a fair price from day one so I can keep the service running. You have full control of your data, so you can export or delete it at any point you want.
If anything here doesn't work the way this page says, email me and I'll fix it asap!
Thanks,
Aleks
aleks@community-archives.com
Questions, answered.
Billing
What happens when the trial ends?
A paid plan keeps the archive available to members. Healthy connected sources continue processing supported content until the admin disconnects them. One plan covers one archive and supports up to 250,000 messages and 5 GB of media per community.
What happens at an archive limit?
The launch plan includes 5 GB of preserved media. At that limit, messages and text keep syncing, existing media stays available, and new files, images, and voice notes are shown as not preserved until you contact support. The 250,000-message figure is our supported launch envelope, not a silent message cutoff.
Can I cancel?
Yes, anytime. On cancellation, your archive is deleted on request. To cancel, delete data, or request a copy, email aleks@community-archives.com.
Sources
Does Community Archives post anything to my chat?
No. Community Archives imports selected content and does not send chat messages back into the community.
What gets imported, and what doesn't?
The available history from the WhatsApp groups or Slack channels you select, plus supported media up to 5 GB. One-to-one WhatsApp message content is not archived. The source coverage matrix lists what each provider allows.
Can I archive both WhatsApp and Slack?
Yes. One archive can connect both WhatsApp and Slack (up to two of each), and one plan covers the whole archive. All sources share the archive's message and media allowance.
Access & data
How do members sign in?
Public archives need no sign-in. Members-only readers verify through WhatsApp or Slack. Invite-only readers use a single-use secure sign-in link sent to an administrator-invited email address. There is no new password to create.
Who can read the archive?
Admins choose the archive's visibility: Public, Members-only, or Invite-only. Members-only access verifies source membership through WhatsApp or Slack. Invite-only access verifies an administrator-invited email address through a secure sign-in link.
Will you ever sell my community's data?
No. Not as training data, not to advertisers, not aggregated, not anonymized. We make money from subscriptions. Full stop.
Keep what your community already figured out.
Free for 7 days. Readers never pay and have nothing to install.
