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Why not just email?

• pavel_lishin 10y ago
  Email implies a different sort of latency. If I want to ask my coworker René for a quick bit of knowledge, a phone call is too disruptive and too urgent, and an email might not be answered for a few hours. Slack/hipchat/irc are the perfect medium for "hey, do you know off the top of your head why X is Y?"
  • a_imho 10y ago
    Sometimes I fail to answer slack messages for a good chunk of time, with email I only have to pay attention to one notification and can handle all communication from the same interface (and you have to use email anyway). I don't think there is anything inherently slow about email, or that firing off one without a carefully crafted subject would be bad manners. Might be a personal preference, nevertheless I don't think there is any technical advantage in using an instant messaging service.