[davidmurdoch]

> Slack is a chat app with productivity features added on top.

Almost. Slack is a searchable knowledge base with chat and productivity features.

[davidmurdoch]

To the downvoters:

> SLACK: Searchable Log of All Conversation and Knowledge

[baby_souffle]

Yes, but if a conversation happened in a channel you don’t have access to…

Only once in the last decade have I worked at a place where everyone was disciplined about threads in the right channels. More often, conversations take place across a few channels which makes “re synthesizing” the slack results… hard