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Not just the system design, but also the culture. I know a few people who post coherent, properly punctuated and capitalized sentences and paragraphs here on HN
by Stratoscope 9y ago
Not just the system design, but also the culture. I know a few people who post coherent, properly punctuated and capitalized sentences and paragraphs here on HN, but they write on Slack like this:
one line at a time
no caps or periods
stream of thought
enter each time
I posted a parody of this style a while back:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239614 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11239614
- linkregister 9y agoGuilty at charged ^ as
- Stratoscope 9y agoits funny i found out something i never new * knew ^ is something else * is to correct and never use the edit button!
- linkregister 9y agooops, I meant * thanks
- dood 9y agoWhat you describe is the most natural, effortless way to use Slack. Conversely the design makes it very cumbersome to compose thoughtful, well-formatted responses. And the more people use the former style, the less value the latter has. So users tend toward spewing out crap rather than having considered discussion, because Slack's system design strongly encourages it. It takes so much cultural pressure, moaning and nagging to use Slack in a high signal-to-noise manner that I'm quite bearish on it's long-term prospects, and applaud OP's effort at building a system designed more for collaboration than shitposting.