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You do realize the article quotes exactly why losing slack is a problem, yeah? Slack is a store of information. People will have long threads on solving bugs, o

You do realize the article quotes exactly why losing slack is a problem, yeah? Slack is a store of information. People will have long threads on solving bugs, ops issues, error logs and more because that's where you talk about things. It also stores history and has history from people that worked at Twitter before they were laid off. Do you actually do software development? Have you worked with Slack before? Because at almost every place I've worked at it serves as a large store of easily indexable information around a variety of issues. If an issue occurred 10 months ago and is occurring again but the engineer that solved the issue is gone because of Musk firing a bunch of people you can't just email someone that doesn't exist anymore.

coldtea 4y ago
>Because at almost every place I've worked at it serves as a large store of easily indexable information around a variety of issues. Those places have a big documentation, organization, and knowledge retention problem then...
- jeromegv 4y ago
  Yes, and? At the end of the day the knowledge is on Slack, whether you like it or not. Twitter lost more than 50% of their engineers in less than 3 months, of course they have a knowledge retention problem. Now it's shut down, where do you get that info? It's gone, just gone. Please explain to us how it's a good idea to shut down Slack before an alternative has come up.