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Sure, but there are still two major problems IMHO. Firstly, there's no practical and intentional workflow to postpone things (an equivalent of "mark as unread")

Sure, but there are still two major problems IMHO. Firstly, there's no practical and intentional workflow to postpone things (an equivalent of "mark as unread"). Secondly, because a majority of people responds to notifications immediately, it becomes socially unacceptable to not do it in a timely manner.

j4ship 9y ago
that last one is a feature , that last one is what the company was hoping for when deploying it in your org. Its that feature that makes it actually useful What good is a messaging app that keeps you from communicating with me. The whole reason we have this app is for us to communicate, quicker and easier. "Socially unacceptable" ... maybe you are neglecting some important communication? If your answer is no then you should discuss your availability with your team about your slack hours. Its fine to trun off the email and slack. When when you are one work time slack/email make communication better/easier. You should not blame or allow slack to employ a standard you would not be comfortable with even if slack was not invented (ex: your boss calls you at on the phone at 7pm, if thats not ok then you should also tell your boss you dont answer slack after 7pm)
dwb 9y ago
I star messages I need to come back to, and have a repeating reminder to go through them every morning. Works great.
ravitation 9y ago
Like has been stated. This is a feature, not a bug. If you've read a message, why aren't you responding? It's likely not a problem with Slack that you cannot tell one of your coworkers that you will look at something or do something later.
dreamfactored 9y ago
Do you use slack? You seem to be criticising the thing that slack is really good at. The postpone workflow is to switch alerts off, can be done on schedule for when you are not at work and manually for meetings etc. And it allows you to fine tune these between channels and people etc. There are a number of statuses that show to your co-workers (on holiday, sleeping, in meeting, dnd etc). Those messages are there unread for you to come back to when you are ready.
gtolle 9y ago
There's the "remind me about this" feature for messages. The intervals are well-spaced, too. (in 20 mins, in 1 hour, in 3 hours, tomorrow). I find it to be a great way to deal with an interruption that can't be ignored entirely, but comes while I'm in the middle of doing something more important.

j4ship 9y ago

that last one is a feature , that last one is what the company was hoping for when deploying it in your org. Its that feature that makes it actually useful What good is a messaging app that keeps you from communicating with me. The whole reason we have this app is for us to communicate, quicker and easier. "Socially unacceptable" ... maybe you are neglecting some important communication? If your answer is no then you should discuss your availability with your team about your slack hours. Its fine to trun off the email and slack. When when you are one work time slack/email make communication better/easier. You should not blame or allow slack to employ a standard you would not be comfortable with even if slack was not invented (ex: your boss calls you at on the phone at 7pm, if thats not ok then you should also tell your boss you dont answer slack after 7pm)

dwb 9y ago

I star messages I need to come back to, and have a repeating reminder to go through them every morning. Works great.

ravitation 9y ago

Like has been stated. This is a feature, not a bug. If you've read a message, why aren't you responding? It's likely not a problem with Slack that you cannot tell one of your coworkers that you will look at something or do something later.

dreamfactored 9y ago

Do you use slack? You seem to be criticising the thing that slack is really good at. The postpone workflow is to switch alerts off, can be done on schedule for when you are not at work and manually for meetings etc. And it allows you to fine tune these between channels and people etc. There are a number of statuses that show to your co-workers (on holiday, sleeping, in meeting, dnd etc). Those messages are there unread for you to come back to when you are ready.

gtolle 9y ago

There's the "remind me about this" feature for messages. The intervals are well-spaced, too. (in 20 mins, in 1 hour, in 3 hours, tomorrow). I find it to be a great way to deal with an interruption that can't be ignored entirely, but comes while I'm in the middle of doing something more important.