> It's depressing but there are many places where people prefer to use Hipchat and Slack I'm not sure this is bad in an absolute sense. If I'm working on somet

> It's depressing but there are many places where people prefer to use Hipchat and Slack I'm not sure this is bad in an absolute sense. If I'm working on something, the semi-asynchronous nature of chat (assuming disabled notifications) allows me to answer questions when it makes sense for my workflow. Generally, confining in-person chats to blocking questions seems like a reasonable thing to do.