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		allannienhuis on Nov 2, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Five Open-Source Slack Alternatives Slack's design is exactly the opposite of ephemeral. Everything you post, including documents, is indexed and searchable.

lfowles on Nov 3, 2015 [–]

Ok, that makes more sense. I had something like Skype in mind... in theory I have my entire Skype history, but going back more than 100 lines or so is cumbersome. I'd rather teach my wife how to grep logs than to deal with that.

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