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Re:Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory by db48x on Thursday September 22, 2022 @07:40PM (#32946068)
Long ago Mozilla started making all such decisions on mailing lists, because the meetings at water coolers never get documented, and because you can't meet a colleague who lives 10,000 miles away over a water cooler (or at least not very often).
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Re:Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory by BerislavLopac on Friday September 23, 2022 @02:11AM (#32948614)
Interestingly enough, fully-remote companies have an advantage here - such "water-cooler" discussions and decisions still happen, but more commonly over Slack and email than in person (and even in-person discussions can be recorded, although few people think of that in advance).
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Re:Slack’s brand-new feature has an unexpectedly rich backstory by db48x on Friday September 23, 2022 @08:10PM (#32958560)
That’s very true. Although I don’t personally count Slack as a good documentation system, at least you can copy from it.
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