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· Flickr · archiving ·
The Flickr Foundation talks about the idea of A Digital Day Book:
Long ago, businesses would keep a log of daily minutiae but we don’t have that today. We want to make one because recording our own history will benefit future colleagues.
That page references an interview with George Oates, which doesn't seem to have a date anywhere but must've been a while ago judging from how they talk about Slack ("the company is growing really fast"):
Companies today […] use hundreds or thousands of additional services owned by other people to keep their most precious information. That's a big hairy problem that, for example, Slack, the 'real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams', is trying to solve.
I don't think Slack can be considered a particularly good way to store an organisation's day book now!
It doesn't seem to have been replaced by anything better though — it hasn't been replaced at all; it has tightened its hold on people's data though, unfortunately.