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> To me, a slack message or chat message is the digital equivalent to me going to your desk or talking to you at lunch in person. Slack literally stands for Se
by simonsarris 2y ago
> To me, a slack message or chat message is the digital equivalent to me going to your desk or talking to you at lunch in person.
Slack literally stands for Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge. That's why it was built! It's explicitly meant to supersede talking at lunch with something recorded and searchable.
- darkhorse222 2y agoIt is endlessly frustrating that my company aggressively deletes slack messages after 14 days. As a consequence, they're paying for slack and effectively using it like a basic chat client because the lawyers are simple minded fools.
- 1oooqooq 2y agoyou mean, they restrict your searches to messages newer than 14 days. huge difference.
- mbrumlow 2y agoAll it provides is one to many time shifting. What if a chat program deleted the message exactly after the recipient read it? What if a chat program never persisted messages to disk and only in memory? Would companies be told not to ever power off machines?