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My company recently really cut back on slack retention. At first I was frustrated, but we all quickly got over it and work carried on getting done at the same

My company recently really cut back on slack retention. At first I was frustrated, but we all quickly got over it and work carried on getting done at the same pace as before and nothing really got impacted like many of us imagined it might.

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Sevii 11mo ago
It's fine until you need evidence someone agreed to something months ago but all records have been deleted.
- kelnos 11mo ago
  I expect that some types of people (in middle management, especially) may see the lack of this as a good thing.
- lazide 11mo ago
  A certain type of person sees this as a feature, not a bug.
- brendoelfrendo 11mo ago
  Methinks the better solution here is to get better friends?
  - mardifoufs 11mo ago
    Well I don't think most people choose who they work with. Even if you like your team a lot, you might have a discussion with someone from another team or division, and that's where it's useful to have a good chat history haha.
  - Sevii 10mo ago
    Doesn't really work in an org with 100s of people and where emails are automatically deleted after 6 months.
- snowfield 11mo ago
  Yeah, mail is the primary source of this. Once communication with my customers moved to teams. I've had a very hard time to find historical agreements and decisions. I try very hard to create a robust system for ADR logging now. And not just for system architecture. But for all decisions and agreements in my projects and across changes.
wavemode 11mo ago
That bears little resemblance to the Signal concerns. The reason people are worried about losing their personal messages is not lost productivity. It's also not even really the same situation. A more apt analogy would be, if switching work laptops sometimes meant you could no longer read any Slack history.
mnahkies 10mo ago
I'd hate this, slack is an extension of my memory and it being long lived and searchable can be a super power - you don't have to remember all the details of everything, just enough of the who, what, when to find the rest.

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Sevii 11mo ago

It's fine until you need evidence someone agreed to something months ago but all records have been deleted.

kelnos 11mo ago
I expect that some types of people (in middle management, especially) may see the lack of this as a good thing.
lazide 11mo ago
A certain type of person sees this as a feature, not a bug.
brendoelfrendo 11mo ago
Methinks the better solution here is to get better friends?
- mardifoufs 11mo ago
  Well I don't think most people choose who they work with. Even if you like your team a lot, you might have a discussion with someone from another team or division, and that's where it's useful to have a good chat history haha.
- Sevii 10mo ago
  Doesn't really work in an org with 100s of people and where emails are automatically deleted after 6 months.
snowfield 11mo ago
Yeah, mail is the primary source of this. Once communication with my customers moved to teams. I've had a very hard time to find historical agreements and decisions. I try very hard to create a robust system for ADR logging now. And not just for system architecture. But for all decisions and agreements in my projects and across changes.

wavemode 11mo ago

That bears little resemblance to the Signal concerns. The reason people are worried about losing their personal messages is not lost productivity. It's also not even really the same situation. A more apt analogy would be, if switching work laptops sometimes meant you could no longer read any Slack history.

mnahkies 10mo ago

I'd hate this, slack is an extension of my memory and it being long lived and searchable can be a super power - you don't have to remember all the details of everything, just enough of the who, what, when to find the rest.