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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by khazhou on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:23PM (#20228974)
My very-large project switched chat apps in one weekend (backed by a few weeks of prep by IT team). We had JIRA integration on day one, and one or two missing things within a week. It wasn't that big a deal.

I think Slack aficionados overestimate how much investment most companies have in custom integrations and bots and things that increase switching costs.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by gpm on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @09:42PM (#20229086)
Chat history seems like the issue to me. My company has tons of institutional knowledge locked away in slack channels.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by bjoernw on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:46PM (#20229377)
You could always just export all your company's slack data to preserve it and make it queryable https://get.slack.help/hc/en-us/articles/201658943-Export-yo...
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by gpm on Thursday June 20, 2019 @12:24AM (#20229857)
Huh, good to know that exists.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by Jare on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:11AM (#20230359)
> My company has tons of institutional knowledge locked away

I think your company should start working on that problem ASAP.

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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by sciurus on Thursday June 20, 2019 @01:54AM (#20230279)
That might not be an issue at many big companies, which likely have data retention policies that disallow storing chat history longer than N days.
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Re:Slack Is Going Public at a $16B Valuation by dillonmckay on Wednesday June 19, 2019 @10:20PM (#20229267)
They really need to make the search better.
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