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>As good as slack is for communicating I don't think it should be used as a "knowledge" store. It's not that it shouldn't be, but that it probably won't be whe
by fluxquanta 11y ago
>As good as slack is for communicating I don't think it should be used as a "knowledge" store.
It's not that it shouldn't be, but that it probably won't be when it should. My company uses HipChat and not Slack, but ever since we first adopted it about 4 years ago I have been preaching that our in-house technical support staff use its search function before asking the developers for help. Maybe 10% of them do, if I'm being generous. The rest think their issue is unique and requires immediate one-on-one developer attention.
We also have an in-house wiki that doesn't get consulted as often as it should. I spend at least half a day documenting, from a end-user perspective, every project I complete on our wiki and still find myself repeating what I've written in a one-on-one chat on a daily basis.