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Re: Search at Slack

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Post by jliszka »

dgreensp wrote: post #67

The subject of how bad Slack's search is comes up all the time in talking to friends and co-workers, and I wonder if the described ranking changes are enough. Usually when I'm searching, I'm looking for a particular message, possibly even one I read earlier that day, and I may know a few things about it, like who sent it and that it had an important link, but I still can't necessarily find it! The results are also pr…

Stay tuned! We're working on improving phrase matching as we speak.

As for the Control-F thing... stay tuned on that too :)

Re: Search at Slack

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Post by johnchristopher »

jakebasile wrote: post #34
subpixel wrote: post #22

Slack is great, but it's adoption by popular opensource communities is problematic. Why? Because opensource communities are on the free plan, which limits search once you have 10k messages. I've had experiences where I wanted to revisit a question I had asked in a Slack channel the previous week, and been unable to find it. As a result, everyone burns out faster b/c the same questions get asked and answered over, and…

I agree. I am dismayed when I see open source projects using Slack in lieu of IRC or a mailing list. It means I'd be forced to use their awful client (which is slow, buggy, and far too resource intensive for a chat application) or use their awful IRC integration. This is all in addition to the issue you raise of Slack being a black hole beholden to a profit motivated entity. Just use IRC. It's practically impossible…

Have you considered mattermost ?

Re: Search at Slack

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Post by bearcobra »

isabellat wrote: post #90
bearcobra wrote: post #77

I'd love it if they made it easier to search just the channel or conversation you have in focus. Having the filter autocomplete based on what channel your on seems like a good middle ground.

If you use the shortcut 'Command-F' it will search the current channel or conversation by auto-populating the search bar with 'in:channel_name'. Hope that's what you are looking for! Here's a list of all shortcuts: https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201374536-Slack-key... .

Thank you! This is what I get for navigating with my mouse.

Re: Search at Slack

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Post by engelgabriel »

johnchristopher wrote: post #92
jakebasile wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree. I am dismayed when I see open source projects using Slack in lieu of IRC or a mailing list. It means I'd be forced to use their awful client (which is slow, buggy, and far too resource intensive for a chat application) or use their awful IRC integration. This is all in addition to the issue you raise of Slack being a black hole beholden to a profit motivated entity. Just use IRC. It's practically impossible…

Have you considered mattermost ?

Please also consider Rocket.Chat, you can test our SaaS version at https://rocket.chat/deploy for free.
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