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Huh, I never thought of it that way but we sort of have that, just that it's two entries instead of a whole list of frequencies. There's a general chat that you
by lucb1e 1y ago
Huh, I never thought of it that way but we sort of have that, just that it's two entries instead of a whole list of frequencies. There's a general chat that you can read whenever~never (participate as much as you want), and one that you are supposed to read (also after a holiday, you're meant to read what was announced). Taking a peek every now and then throughout the day is fine (most days there's 0-2 messages in it). It's basically email whereas the other chat is 'chat'
And of course, if someone needs you specifically, they'll @mention or PM you
Not sure why you would need a four-tiered scheme of frequencies for this
- chatmasta 1y agoHow big is your company? We have ~800 people and after about two years I’m in close to 200 channels. I don’t leave them because then I won’t be able to find messages in search for the private channels. I just throw everything into a “stale” category at the bottom of the sidebar every few months.
- fluoridation 1y agoThey're all private? Why are you guys doing that?
- chatmasta 1y agoA good number of them are. I don’t like it either. I make every new channel public.
- fluoridation 1y agoSo stupid. I could possibly see it in a giant corporation where security could be more of an issue, but at 800 people?
- chatmasta 1y agoThere’s plenty of legitimate security concerns. But that’s not the usual reason for private channels. They’re created by people with control issues. It’s just another gatekeeping mechanism and way of playing politics.
- malnourish 1y agoWe get security alerts when we set a channel to public. We also have 1 day retention for private chats. (Teams, not Slack, but same idea)
- lukevp 1y agoA 1 day retention? That seems suspiciously short and like it is intended to cover things up
- malnourish 1y agoYes, it's absurd. But our industry put heavy incentive on R&D DLP.
- syntheticnature 1y agoWhere I am, you need an admin to make a public channel; you cannot do it yourself.
- ElijahLynn 1y agoSame, private channel search privilege. Most channels should not be public but when people have fear, it is private by default, and when they have safety it is public by default.
- chatmasta 1y agoThere should be a way to leave a private channel but rejoin it at any time, so that it’s included in search results. But then again that’s solving a problem that shouldn’t exist if there is no performance penalty from joining many channels. It doesn’t seem like there is, either. I haven’t had an issue just hiding everything under the “Stale” category.