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I’d love to know of an existing end to end encrypted chat platform with a search experience comparable to Slack.

The only way that’s obvious to me is searching locally on your device. This will not be a happy experience for any moderately sized organization.

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God forbid our 7 billion transistor 20 core Xeon CPUs actually search through a few MB of text efficiently! </facepalm>

grep can trawl through gigs of files in a few seconds (and that's without indexes), so I don't see why would be an unhappy experience. In any case, there are alternatives; one would be to "recruit" a few other clients of the same organization for a distributed parallel search.

The issue comes from the fact that I don't really want to have to download gigabytes of data over my network.

Especially not if I just want to quickly check my messages from a web browser.

Okay, show me an end to end platform I can grep through.

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