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In all seriousness, please enlighten me. Email isn't the best, but the other options are equally or more shit: Slack, which has nonfunctional search and is mis

In all seriousness, please enlighten me. Email isn't the best, but the other options are equally or more shit: Slack, which has nonfunctional search and is miserable to navigate? Github readmes? Atlassian's wiki, which has even more broken search, and follows management's whims? Google docs, which vary widely in format, is not easily searchable, and has no index? Team documentation, which follows managements whims, gets moved around, deprecated and eventually stowed in unused lavatories? Internal stackoverflow, which is piloted and then slowly abandoned after an intial big push my managers, who get promoted and then leave the company? Facebook workplace, which suffers a similar fate to stackoverflow? The problem is there is no global index or search- think Sourcegraph, and management keeps changing products/documentation/comms strategy every 6 months.

sqs 6y ago
Quote: "The problem is there is no global index or search- think Sourcegraph, and management keeps changing products/documentation/comms strategy every 6 months." Are you saying that Sourcegraph's management keeps changing products/documentation/comms strategy every 6 months? (Just not sure how to parse this sentence.)
- medium_burrito 6y ago
  No, I'm saying that management keeps changing internal documentation/comms strategy, and that without a central index to search, it's impossible to know where things are, or what's even going on. A tool like Sourcegraph but for finding documentation could be useful, but it doesn't show you the amount of "dead" documentation that's floating out there, or give you a way to browse everything.