Ngl I view this as a straight up feature—anything intransient enough to go in a thread should go to a more persistent area like a forum. Otherwise it gets lost

Ngl I view this as a straight up feature—anything intransient enough to go in a thread should go to a more persistent area like a forum. Otherwise it gets lost in slack and is extremely difficult to find later. Slack anxiety sucks; email and forums are highly searchable and linkable and there’s no shortage of cheap, open-source software providing this AND they don’t have built-in corporate incentives driving engagement in a chat platform like it’s a good thing in itself (hence why the notification and “unread count” settings are trash). Like how do you store a thread to find it later—loudly announce the subject in as much detail as possible with a “SUBJECT:” index prefix? Deep link to put in your wiki and hope slack actually honors those links in a year? Is slack search usable yet?