<story><title>Search at Slack</title><url>https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e#.cqkhzbv5d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subpixel</author><text>Slack is great, but it&amp;#x27;s adoption by popular opensource communities is problematic.&lt;p&gt;Why? Because opensource communities are on the free plan, which limits search once you have 10k messages. I&amp;#x27;ve had experiences where I wanted to revisit a question I had asked in a Slack channel the previous week, and been unable to find it.&lt;p&gt;As a result, everyone burns out faster b&amp;#x2F;c the same questions get asked and answered over, and over.&lt;p&gt;Couple this with the fact that channels are not indexed by Google and you get a black box where valuable Q&amp;amp;A content and discussion goes to die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jakebasile</author><text>I agree. I am dismayed when I see open source projects using Slack in lieu of IRC or a mailing list. It means I&amp;#x27;d be forced to use their awful client (which is slow, buggy, and far too resource intensive for a chat application) or use their awful IRC integration. This is all in addition to the issue you raise of Slack being a black hole beholden to a profit motivated entity.&lt;p&gt;Just use IRC. It&amp;#x27;s practically impossible to avoid Slack at any startup now, but I&amp;#x27;d love to be able to avoid it in FOSS.</text></comment>
<story><title>Search at Slack</title><url>https://slack.engineering/search-at-slack-431f8c80619e#.cqkhzbv5d</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>subpixel</author><text>Slack is great, but it&amp;#x27;s adoption by popular opensource communities is problematic.&lt;p&gt;Why? Because opensource communities are on the free plan, which limits search once you have 10k messages. I&amp;#x27;ve had experiences where I wanted to revisit a question I had asked in a Slack channel the previous week, and been unable to find it.&lt;p&gt;As a result, everyone burns out faster b&amp;#x2F;c the same questions get asked and answered over, and over.&lt;p&gt;Couple this with the fact that channels are not indexed by Google and you get a black box where valuable Q&amp;amp;A content and discussion goes to die.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>accountface</author><text> Why are people using a chat app like a wiki to begin with</text></comment>