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Slack is one of my most annoying and least-effective tools because every single message has a pop up that blocks off a corner of my screen. Slack's notificatio

Slack is one of my most annoying and least-effective tools because every single message has a pop up that blocks off a corner of my screen. Slack's notifications lack customization which makes them annoying. Either you get the whole package, intrusive desktop pop up and all, or you get no notification. Where's the option to have sounds but no pop ups? Where's the option to lump notifications so you don't get spammed?

endymi0n 11y ago
Maybe you can't customize notifications extensively in Slack itself (I found them okay, yet slightly lacking), but if you're on a Mac, you can definitely comfigure Desktop notifications per App, which I also did.
mh- 11y ago
totally agree about the lack of customization. A portion of the difficulty is owing to them using a web app in a SSB (single site browser) instead of a properly native desktop app. I would love to be able to tile different channel/message windows, like we all did with IRC clients. Unfortunately this is fundamentally intractable in an SSB-architected app (including Electron, node-webkit, et al.).
BinaryIdiot 11y ago
Yeah after we started hooking it up now I get all these notifications for builds, etc. I don't need any of this notifying me but I need notifications for other types of messages. Right now I'm not seeing a difference between this and HipChat but everyone seems to love it so I'll use it I'm just kinda indifferent and unimpressed with it thus far.
- amatix 11y ago
  you can do quite a lot of customisation if you split out automation messages into channels - each channel has per-user-device notification preferences
Tehnix 11y ago
If you use OS X, go into System Preferences -> Notifications -> Slack and set slack alert style to "None". There, you now have sound and no banner-style alerts. You can customise a lot more and all apps that are able to do notifications go through there.
hpoydar 11y ago
Agreed. I wrote a blog post outlining a way to get around this. (https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-noisy-1b318a2a6c02 https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-...) The gist: turn off all notifications then flip them back on by channel. Still doesn't address de-coupling of pop-ups and sound, though.
- tobrepeels 11y ago
  Loved the article. check out www.spacechatapp.com would love to pick your brains on how to filter through the noise. we're building it.
  - hokkos 11y ago
    Your site shows cloudflare errors.

endymi0n 11y ago

Maybe you can't customize notifications extensively in Slack itself (I found them okay, yet slightly lacking), but if you're on a Mac, you can definitely comfigure Desktop notifications per App, which I also did.

mh- 11y ago

totally agree about the lack of customization. A portion of the difficulty is owing to them using a web app in a SSB (single site browser) instead of a properly native desktop app. I would love to be able to tile different channel/message windows, like we all did with IRC clients. Unfortunately this is fundamentally intractable in an SSB-architected app (including Electron, node-webkit, et al.).

BinaryIdiot 11y ago

Yeah after we started hooking it up now I get all these notifications for builds, etc. I don't need any of this notifying me but I need notifications for other types of messages. Right now I'm not seeing a difference between this and HipChat but everyone seems to love it so I'll use it I'm just kinda indifferent and unimpressed with it thus far.

amatix 11y ago
you can do quite a lot of customisation if you split out automation messages into channels - each channel has per-user-device notification preferences

Tehnix 11y ago

If you use OS X, go into System Preferences -> Notifications -> Slack and set slack alert style to "None". There, you now have sound and no banner-style alerts. You can customise a lot more and all apps that are able to do notifications go through there.

hpoydar 11y ago

Agreed. I wrote a blog post outlining a way to get around this. (https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-noisy-1b318a2a6c02 https://medium.com/building-things-people-want/slack-is-too-...) The gist: turn off all notifications then flip them back on by channel. Still doesn't address de-coupling of pop-ups and sound, though.

tobrepeels 11y ago
Loved the article. check out www.spacechatapp.com would love to pick your brains on how to filter through the noise. we're building it.
- hokkos 11y ago
  Your site shows cloudflare errors.