Ask HN: How do you ensure everyone on the team is heard on Slack?

Post by kortilla » Sat, Jul 09, 2022, 7:03 AM UTC

KennyBlanken wrote: post #54

safetythirds wrote: post #15

At my place of work, our internal chat rooms (not Slack, but a similar product) are automatically wiped of messages older than two weeks, to actively discourage anyone from using it as a knowledge store. Instead, we have a company-wide BookStack instance that's the primary store of documentation, split into different sections for project information (per project) and rough notes (per employee). Everyone is expected t…

> our internal chat rooms (not Slack, but a similar product) are automatically wiped of messages older than two weeks, to actively discourage anyone from using it as a knowledge store. Or it's being wiped because your leadership team doesn't want anything shady uncovered in discovery or a warrant and "we do it to discourage anyone from using it as a knowledge store" is how it's being sold to everyone else.