[KennyBlanken]

> 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.

[kortilla]

But the shady shit can be put right into the other documentation systems OP mentioned. That’s not the reason.