On: How we use Slack in our family

[jedberg]

Right now my wife and I just use Google calendar and iMessage, but I can see a time soon when my child can speak, read and type where it might be handy to have a group chat.

Although reading this now I wonder if it would be handy to have this for my in-laws who all live in the area, since right now we all have to coordinate via email.

[rekoros → jedberg]

But how would you deal with losing history? 10K messages is not very many.

I've been using gmail/gtalk for ~12 years -- I can quickly dig up (and regularly do) pretty much anything my parents and I ever talked about. I consider this to be the killer feature (vs, say, hotmail, where I had to keep deleting messages because of the 10MB limit, back in the day).

[jedberg → rekoros]

> But how would you deal with losing history? 10K messages is not very many.

That's a good point, although in practice I rarely have to search through our message history.

Also, since we're using iMessage, it's really hard to search anyway.

[cdcarter → rekoros]

You have a very affordable paid option if you need paid features!

[stevesearer → jedberg]

If you haven't already, shared photo albums on iOS are a really great way to share baby pics with family members without overwhelming your Instagram feeds or having to email all of the time.