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I think personal comms + general channel announcements are OK. Just close slack and when you come back check any specific communications for you asynchronously,
by ivan_ah 9y ago
I think personal comms + general channel announcements are OK. Just close slack and when you come back check any specific communications for you asynchronously, or if you want to catch up on "what's been up" you can browse message threads.
On the other hand @here/@channel messages are terrible! Now these are terrible because they confuse the "broadcast" nature messages with personal messages.
- icc97 9y agoThen surely agree with the people at your work to never use @channel. It's basically the same as 'Reply All', it's a waste of everyone's time.
- tomjen3 9y agoIt is a lot easier (several orders of magnitudes) to change software than to chance people (especially for programmers) - so the focus should be on changing software.
- ivan_ah 9y agoYeah, I've started to persecute the offenders individually by telling them privately how disruptive their @here messages are. It's weird though, because sometimes I want to announce things to everyone, e.g., to bring to everyone's attention something that I've done, but I have to follow my own do-not-spam everyone rule. I guess comms is hard no matter what tools you use. O(n^2) hard, for a team of n people.