> - On top of that slack threads are lost forever in time unless pinned. The conversation rarely gets translated in to wiki or email or whatever so decisions are sometimes made and forgotten.
I've literally been requesting a "export to wiki" feature from Slack, since 2016. After tracking really useful #dev chats, & then watching them disappear in the ether of subsequent non sequiturs & horrible slack search, I can only conclude Slack isn't interested?
Add in the loss of content from deactivated users, & Slack becomes the place where useful convos go to die, surrounded by giphys & emoji
You can automate this with a script or with a middleware platform of your choice. I work at a place that does this and we export answered questions into a company knowledge base.
I've literally been requesting a "export to wiki" feature from Slack, since 2016. After tracking really useful #dev chats, & then watching them disappear in the ether of subsequent non sequiturs & horrible slack search, I can only conclude Slack isn't interested?
Add in the loss of content from deactivated users, & Slack becomes the place where useful convos go to die, surrounded by giphys & emoji