The complaint about scanning through #general for a 0.5% chance that someone solved your problem is the same as the other fellows complaint about listening to a

The complaint about scanning through #general for a 0.5% chance that someone solved your problem is the same as the other fellows complaint about listening to all of the #general office chatter on the chance that some of it could be relevant to you. I think the answer to both of those situations is a searchable Q&A board. (internal StackOverflow) StackOverflow has already addressed the problem for most topics that can be discussed publically. What remains to be addressed is the internal/sensitive topics that people are unwilling to discuss in the open. There are some projects attempting to replicate SO functionality but so far we have not seen one gain adoption like Slack has in the chat space.