API Pagination Evolution

This thread tracks the evolution of Slack's API pagination strategies. Initial posts likely covered the challenges of growing data volumes and the limitations of no pagination. This post details the move from offset-based pagination to cursor-based pagination, addressing scalability and reliability issues. It discusses the pros and cons of offset and cursor pagination, and introduces a new cursor-based scheme inspired by Relay Cursor Connections, using opaque, Base64-encoded cursors for forward pagination. Future posts may detail specific endpoint implementations and further refinements.