Yeah, maybe Slack is bad in OP's workplace. But in mine, it's been great for increasing communication in an all-remote developer company. JIRA is used for task

Yeah, maybe Slack is bad in OP's workplace. But in mine, it's been great for increasing communication in an all-remote developer company. JIRA is used for task management, docs are stored in the same repo as the code, and Slack is used just to talk to people or solicit opinions. No one ever uses @here because none of us want to be bothered either. I feel like most of the complaints on Slack are either because people use it as something other than logged IRC, or because it's getting misblamed for other company culture problems.