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Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require
by theideaofcoffee 2y ago
Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery.
Then that's implemented with no warning to be able to migrate important info out into a wiki or other documentation. So in the end, no better than IRC really, but I get it, not a Slack problem, but allowing that whiplash at a click of a button doesn't help. Slack seems to help paper over deep cultural problems in a way that makes it all colorful and squishy.
But as other seem to agree, it's pretty bad at keeping anything organized like you want to be as an info repo, there are tools that are geared toward that specifically. Don't crowbar one into the other.
- aeadio 2y ago> Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery. Well that just doesn't sound legal. In fact, I'm pretty sure Google just got the book thrown at them for this. [1] [1] https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/judge-google-deleted-chat-logs-antitrust-case/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/29/tech/judge-google-deleted-cha...
- wkat4242 2y agoThat might not be the official reason, in Europe you can argue you sometimes discuss customer info and thus it needs to be deleted once no longer relevant. Of course stating you're doing it for the purpose of destroying evidence is stupid.
- iExploder 2y ago> Being able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery. dude, we work at the same company...
- Teckla 2y agoBeing able to search in the past for a half-remembered conversation sounds great until you have idiotic, asinine corporate data retention policies that require anything beyond 90 days to be deleted anyway, for some bullshit reason like being open to litigation or whatever and that being subject to discovery. The company I work for has the same chat retention policy, but despite that, even being able to go back just 90 days has proven very useful!