I agree - if we can have each 24 hours of chat archived to somewhere that provides a free-text search, that would be very good. Up until now, I've been grabbing, editting and posting chats I find of interest and importance to me. And it seems to lend itself to design discussions. What it's not very good at, atm, is discussion threading. It would be great to be able to set your typing as belonging to a thread., so that when it get sucked out and archived that the threads were segregated. Does someone have a server that could receive a text dump of all recent Slack messages every 12 (or 24, or 6) hours, and then make it available for indexing by Google et al, and querying (via the search engines) by our dev base? On 22 November 2015 at 13:57, Dimitris Chloupis <kilon.alios@gmail.com> wrote:
Just to clear something up , because I see people in slack saying goodbye, or "I cant reply right now I have something to do" . Slack is not just a real time chat, it keeps messages inside a history of 10 thousand messages. So that means you can log in Slack at any time and not lose a message. There is no reason for you to be online all time, no reason to say goodbye, goodmorning , goodafternoon. You can come and go as you please the exact same way as the mailing list.
The problem arises when we exceed 10k messages, the old ones get lost and I think having a place to store them is a good idea.
Also what is important is in the eye of the beholder, for example I dont care about any discussion about web development , its just does not interest me or database coding or many other things. I have learned to filter out the messages I dont care about in the mailing list and just reject them. Slack is same story, I quickly glance through its history and I can search the messages that interest me using the search bar , I can star messages that I want to keep, and I can comment on existing messages / code snippets which create a thread about that message.
In the end its impossible to keep the community in one place but to have a central hub that collects all the little gems can be quite useful.
On Sun, Nov 22, 2015 at 3:46 PM stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
Yes this would be good. People should understand that important discussions should be via the mailing-list. Emails are good because you can consume them the way you want. I simply cannot be connected all the time. So emails are good because I can process them when I decide. Slack is good for more interactive session around debugger and things like that.
Stef
Le 21/11/15 18:05, Stephan Eggermont a écrit :
Should we have a digest from slack to a mailing list? We are already losing messages
Stephan