Completely disagree. There's a tons and tons of ways to use them. Sure it can be gimmick or it can be an extremely valuable tool and usually they are somewhere

Completely disagree. There's a tons and tons of ways to use them. Sure it can be gimmick or it can be an extremely valuable tool and usually they are somewhere in-between. In my own experience I've found they are a great replacement for many different types of email notifications such are exceptions from an application. Things you want to glance at and maybe take action on. When these are an email I have to "manage" them, choose where to put them or to delete them or whatever. And I eventually end up just filtering them into an inbox I rarely look at. As a channel though it's just the right amount of attention and time to them. Took some time adjusting settings to get the right level of exceptions to show up and we still have them all in the exception tracker itself. The other thing is I only check my email a couple times a day. because most of what goes into my inbox is not time sensitive. Whereas Slack is always on if I'm working so I will instantly see if there's a major issue on the site. Of course every company is different and has different needs. But writing off all integrations as a gimmick is narrow minded.