I love the idea of going back before IMs more than I'd like the reality, I think. Actually, I like the idea of no IMs at work (if there is only one small office) but it would suck to lose long distance friends or nevermet online-only friends.
Secondarily, the author writes:
> Searching through the history of a Slack room is difficult, and rarely useful.
I'm no fan of Slack (IRC uber alles) but I have to hand it to them: their search, in my experience, has been as good (read: magical) or better than google. Even for piss poor search terms it comes back with what I was thinking, not what I was typing. It's really perfect.
Must be somewhat dependent on what type of things people talk about. I've found their search feature cumbersome and hard to use.
I listened to a "How I Built This" podcast about Slack maybe six months ago and I remember finding it very amusing and unexpected that they view their "search" feature as one of the main draws for people switching from other chat apps to Slack. For me, it's always been like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Maybe because we have a single product and lots of bugs and features are pretty similar to each other.
Yep. It's so hard getting back up to speed after being out a few days when info is lost to meeting minutes. When most discussion occurs in slack where you have history and search, it's so easy and quick to catch up. Just read the scrollback, dive into threads you care about, and you're done.
I agree, the Slack search functionality has saved me a number of times from missing out on things. I also kind of cheat and message myself things of interest over time.
Secondarily, the author writes:
> Searching through the history of a Slack room is difficult, and rarely useful.
I'm no fan of Slack (IRC uber alles) but I have to hand it to them: their search, in my experience, has been as good (read: magical) or better than google. Even for piss poor search terms it comes back with what I was thinking, not what I was typing. It's really perfect.