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Hi, I'm one of the authors on the post, happy to answer any questions.

iloveluce 10y ago
Awesome article! The article mentions the signals that the model found were most significant for a message. Curious to know if they're listed by order of significance in the article? And if not was wondering whether one or two signals were predominantly more significant than the rest.
- isabellat 10y ago
  Our top signals are age of the message, whether the message contains a link and whether the message is from the channel that you are currently viewing. We have several different models in production right now but those signals are generally the strongest.
g12mcgov 10y ago
Is there any possibility in the future users will be able to search ALL messages from a channel/private message, ever? It seems like Slack search cuts off after a certain point, and doesn't index into archived messages.
- isabellat 10y ago
  The free version includes search up to 10k of your team's most recent messages. The standard version includes unlimited searchable message archives. https://tinyspeck.slack.com/pricing/slack-for-teams https://tinyspeck.slack.com/pricing/slack-for-teams
throwthisawayt 10y ago
This sounds like a really interesting problem to work on. Are you hiring anyone for this team (esp those new to search)?
- donretag 10y ago
  My experience as an experienced search developer is that there are very few search specific positions, if any, outside of the Bay Area. My current job is working remotely for a SF based company, where I do everything but search. :(
  - chimeracoder 10y ago
    Slack's search team is based in NYC: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/starting-up-slack-s-search-learning-intelligence-group-in-the-new-nyc-office-af6523090789#.ghwbqvzgb https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/starting-up-slack-s-search-le...
- isabellat 10y ago
  Yes we are hiring! https://slack.com/jobs/273177/senior-software-engineer-search-learning-and-intelligence https://slack.com/jobs/273177/senior-software-engineer-searc...

Awesome article! The article mentions the signals that the model found were most significant for a message. Curious to know if they're listed by order of significance in the article? And if not was wondering whether one or two signals were predominantly more significant than the rest.

isabellat 10y ago
Our top signals are age of the message, whether the message contains a link and whether the message is from the channel that you are currently viewing. We have several different models in production right now but those signals are generally the strongest.

g12mcgov 10y ago

Is there any possibility in the future users will be able to search ALL messages from a channel/private message, ever? It seems like Slack search cuts off after a certain point, and doesn't index into archived messages.

isabellat 10y ago
The free version includes search up to 10k of your team's most recent messages. The standard version includes unlimited searchable message archives. https://tinyspeck.slack.com/pricing/slack-for-teams https://tinyspeck.slack.com/pricing/slack-for-teams

throwthisawayt 10y ago

This sounds like a really interesting problem to work on. Are you hiring anyone for this team (esp those new to search)?

donretag 10y ago
My experience as an experienced search developer is that there are very few search specific positions, if any, outside of the Bay Area. My current job is working remotely for a SF based company, where I do everything but search. :(
- chimeracoder 10y ago
  Slack's search team is based in NYC: https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/starting-up-slack-s-search-learning-intelligence-group-in-the-new-nyc-office-af6523090789#.ghwbqvzgb https://medium.com/@noah_weiss/starting-up-slack-s-search-le...
isabellat 10y ago
Yes we are hiring! https://slack.com/jobs/273177/senior-software-engineer-search-learning-and-intelligence https://slack.com/jobs/273177/senior-software-engineer-searc...