> Lack of google visibility. Lots of good discussions will benefit the asker and a few people in the slack but no one in the future, searching for the same info

> Lack of google visibility. Lots of good discussions will benefit the asker and a few people in the slack but no one in the future, searching for the same information. It's true, but there is also a lot of information that is no more relevant, yet comes first in search. With IRC or Slack, you may lose some of the benefits of archived discussion but you get fresh information . Plus, most of the conversation on these channels is chat. By nature, it is ephemeral and should stay that way.