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Sounds way too familiar. I am generally amazed that people refer to Slack as chat AND asynchronous communication tools. The two are kind of opposite for me. I
by openplatypus 11y ago
Sounds way too familiar. I am generally amazed that people refer to Slack as chat AND asynchronous communication tools. The two are kind of opposite for me.
I too miss times when email was for longer async communication and chat/gtalk/irc was for ad-hoc brief chats or production incident triage.
- tmail21 11y agoI think that as long as Slack is used as a synchronous tool it is great. Once it starts being used for asynchronous purposes, that's when things start to get dicey. The optimal is to use Slack for synchronous chat and a purpose-built asynchronous communication tool that integrates with it. Here is one way that Slack and an asynchronous tool could be combined. https://tmail21.com/blog/the-biggest-pitfall-of-slack-and-how-to-overcome-it/ https://tmail21.com/blog/the-biggest-pitfall-of-slack-and-ho...