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Searching in slack is a dumpster fire due to the nature of a chat room (which all slack is). It is impossible to group bits of useful information together. Once
by matchbok 8y ago
Searching in slack is a dumpster fire due to the nature of a chat room (which all slack is). It is impossible to group bits of useful information together. Once a chat gets going in a room about topic A there is absolutely no way to separate that information from another chat going on in the same room. If the answer is "smaller rooms" then that sort defeats the whole purpose of a chat room.
Sorry to say this, but if you are answering things on slack at home, you are "working" and anchored to your phone.
- logicfiction 8y agoThere's a thread feature built into slack if you need to t ake conversations "aside" but in the same channel
- mijamo 8y agoThreads are the most horrible and broken feature in Slack ever. So much that I wish we could disable them altogether. The visibility is bad, notifications are bad, the UI is confusing. I don't even understand how can some people use it.
- stephengillie 8y agoAt a previous job, we had a mandatory policy of creating a new Slack chat room for every incident involving 2 or more engineers. This was before threaded messages. It really, really helped. And then we started making our own clique chat rooms. Then it became mandatory to not have tech discussions in a clique room.