Ask HN: Instant Messages with a Public Record?
I’m a volunteer on a commission for the City of Austin.   The commission is required to comply with Texas’s Open Meetings Act.  Any communication by at least a quorum of commissioners must be publicly available.<p>The problem is that Slack and text messages don’t keep a public record.  I could write a script that daily downloads Slack’s archive, converts it to HTML, and posts the HTML on a website.   But I’d prefer a product, so citizens don’t have to trust me and my script.<p>Do you know of a service that does that?   It doesn’t have to be Slack.   Any instant messenger with good smartphone and web support would be acceptable.  A way to record text messages (SMS or MMS) might also work.