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by mattbrewsbytes 1236 days ago
I've explored the idea of SO for work but I think you've hit the problem with Slack + any other discussion tool: its another inbox to check and that is a mental hurdle for a lot of people. Its not mentally taxing to check someplace else it will just get forgotten if the main mode of communication is instantly sending slack messages.

What might be handy is a bot to take a slack thread and dump it to a wiki page for things you want to live on beyond the organizations slack retention period.

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> its another inbox to check

Them having a slick way to process emails as well as chat in the same client would be pretty useful. Even though, I know, it disregards an ancient warning [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law