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Re:Slack S-1 by markolschesky on Friday April 26, 2019 @03:39PM (#19761090)
It's rough. We thought about switching to Microsoft Teams and we realized that so many decisions about our relatively young company were tucked in DMs and private channels in Slack that we couldn't leave.

Email is non-sticky (just take your emails/save them on client and leave) Files storage is non-sticky (just move your files from OneDrive to GDrive) Chat/Collaboration is sticky as mud.

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Re:Slack S-1 by derp_dee_derp on Friday April 26, 2019 @06:04PM (#19762156)
This sounds more like a problem with your young companies processes, not a problem with slack or email.

Maybe you should think about a formal method of documenting important decisions for your company instead of relying on a chat log.

"Hey, I just purchased 20k of widgets"

"What? Why?! We can't afford that! We decided to discontinue those widgets month ago! Didn't you scroll through the chat logs before making that purchase order??!"

Good luck.

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Re:Slack S-1 by rubidium on Friday April 26, 2019 @04:07PM (#19761316)
Chat only is if you’ve chosen slack or some other proprietary format.
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