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Let's be honest; how many Slack messages or conversations older than 2-3 weeks still have value?
by Kirth 1y ago
Let's be honest; how many Slack messages or conversations older than 2-3 weeks still have value?
- dzhiurgis 1y agoSlacks biggest value is ephemeral nature. Forces you to document in proper places.
- JambalayaJimbo 1y agoSlack is the first place I search for any issue at my company and I frequently take advantage of 3-4 year old threads
- joshstrange 1y ago95% might have little value or zero but 5% of them are gold, it’s just not always clear which 5% is the gold until you need it.
- mitthrowaway2 1y agoIn BC, engineering firms are legally required to maintain project documentation for 10 years, including slack messages.
- novatea 1y agoIn Hack Club, a lot. I'm a teen in HC, many projects run for months and have very valuable messages for a long time.
- p-t 1y agoAdding on to this, a lot of people don't want their personal chats deleted either!
- layman51 1y agoI'm actually part of some Slack workspaces that are on the free plan which hides messages (including DMs) older than 90 days. It is actually quite cumbersome then because if someone sends a valuable message, I have to remember to screenshot or better yet copy-paste it into a durable spot or else I'm going to have to ask again about the same thing.
- insane_dreamer 1y agoWe use Slack extensively and I'm searching for info in conversations from months or even years ago regularly.