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I don't think this is WordPress employees taking a mile when given an inch by working remotely all the time. I believe WordPress encourages employees not to reg

I don't think this is WordPress employees taking a mile when given an inch by working remotely all the time. I believe WordPress encourages employees not to regularly go to the office. The reason being is they don't want a small faction of the company to become essentially collocated while the rest of the company is distributed, thus breaking their communication flows. Remote works for WordPress because almost all communication gets archived in Slack, email or p2 (their internal social network built on WordPress). Anyone can see what's going on or get caught up asynchronously. It's pretty much guaranteed that in a collocated environment some of that communication would happen offline IRL, and others would miss out on it.

larrik 9y ago
"archived in Slack" Wait, is there a way to make old conversations in Slack less painful to find and read? Anything more than 3 pages away is just not worth the effort for me.
- rmccue 9y ago
  http://slackarchive.io/ http://slackarchive.io/ is neat, you might be able to get utility out of that, depending on what you're doing.
- tspike 9y ago
  Search
  - larrik 9y ago
    Searching in the app is brutal, and if you are having a conversation in the same channel, it's basically worthless.
    - tspike 9y ago
      Have you tried in:<channel> <search query>? Seems to work ok for me. Similarly, using from:<user> <search query> is useful.
- pmlnr 9y ago
  use the IRC bridge and log in plain text ;)
- j_s 9y ago
  These guys are building a business in this space: https://slackarchive.io/ https://slackarchive.io/ The claim to fame so far is free archiving for public channels, often useful for open source projects that have accepted the trade-offs that come with directing a community to a free public slack.
- philsnow 9y ago
  I typically use the slack app to find conversations I want to read, and then if they're more than a few pages in the past, will read them in the web interface. The web interface seems somehow to perform many times better.

larrik 9y ago

"archived in Slack" Wait, is there a way to make old conversations in Slack less painful to find and read? Anything more than 3 pages away is just not worth the effort for me.

rmccue 9y ago
http://slackarchive.io/ http://slackarchive.io/ is neat, you might be able to get utility out of that, depending on what you're doing.
tspike 9y ago
Search
- larrik 9y ago
  Searching in the app is brutal, and if you are having a conversation in the same channel, it's basically worthless.
  - tspike 9y ago
    Have you tried in:<channel> <search query>? Seems to work ok for me. Similarly, using from:<user> <search query> is useful.
pmlnr 9y ago
use the IRC bridge and log in plain text ;)
j_s 9y ago
These guys are building a business in this space: https://slackarchive.io/ https://slackarchive.io/ The claim to fame so far is free archiving for public channels, often useful for open source projects that have accepted the trade-offs that come with directing a community to a free public slack.
philsnow 9y ago
I typically use the slack app to find conversations I want to read, and then if they're more than a few pages in the past, will read them in the web interface. The web interface seems somehow to perform many times better.