On July 18, 2022,
Slack announced that
starting September 1, search history for organizations on Slack’s Free plan will
be limited to just the past 90 days of message history.
Instead of a 10,000-message limit and 5 GB of storage, we are giving full
access to the past 90 days of message history and …
Zulip has threading, which you can even rename after you already set a topic. I don’t know an email client where you can easily rename mail threads.
Not only can you edit the topic of your own messages, but (if the right organization setting is enabled) you can actually change the topic of other people’s messages which is really awesome for moving offtopic digressions out of a conversation. all of the messages remain visible in their original temporal order in the full stream view, but when you “narrow” to a specific topic the offtopic messages disappear.
How are emails better than chats in that regard?
Because emails can be threaded? So it can be used as some kind of ticketing system. Newcomers can easily catch up too.
Zulip has threading, which you can even rename after you already set a topic. I don’t know an email client where you can easily rename mail threads.
If you imagine a ticketing system based on mail conversations, it’s not far from Zulip. You should try it.
Not only can you edit the topic of your own messages, but (if the right organization setting is enabled) you can actually change the topic of other people’s messages which is really awesome for moving offtopic digressions out of a conversation. all of the messages remain visible in their original temporal order in the full stream view, but when you “narrow” to a specific topic the offtopic messages disappear.
Yeah, that’s vastly superior to everything I’ve seen with emails. I wish mails worked like Zulip.