[vbordo]

> "[caching/searching] is awful on any platform. It’s not clear what the bounds are for any search and only a very brief history is cached locally. Everything else has to be fetched remotely so scrolling is painful and searching glacial."

I've felt this frustration with Teams and Slack. Effective search in any real-time messaging platform seems difficult to deliver. Has anyone else had this problem and found a good solution to it?

[inetknght]

> Effective search in any real-time messaging platform seems difficult to deliver. Has anyone else had this problem and found a good solution to it?

Log chats to text files and learn `grep`. Keep chat logs organized in a daily/weekly/monthly/yearly directory hierarchy.

I think many people would be amazed at just how fast their disk can read tens or hundreds of MBs of chat logs; how fast `grep` can find what you're looking for.

[vbordo]

Interesting approach. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

[jimnotgym]

Yes,

Keep your chats short and to the point...I never even noticed there was a search feature