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"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 th

by 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
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- 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.