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Ask HN: Do you know a less distracting Slack alternative?
I’ve managed to control the impulse of checking my email every 5 minutes but slack is still interrupts me one way or the other, I kinda want to switch the team to a less distracting alternative. Suggestions?
- chasselschwert 8y agoWe switched from Slack to Twist https://twistapp.com/ https://twistapp.com/ about a year ago and haven't looked back. Conversations are threaded like email and the communication is designed around an asynchronous style instead of an always-on, always-notifying model.
- welly 8y agoIt sounds to me less like a problem with the technology but more with your habits and self discipline. If Slack is interrupting you then why not just close it? And don't open it until you actually need it. Another alternative will only distract you in the same way, surely.
- mehly 8y agoHave you tried disabling alerts, setting your status to "away" and managing that source of distraction?
- cristobal23 8y agoOnce I figured out how to mute @here and @channel, I regained sanity.
- vinylkey 8y agoCan you turn off your Slack notifications? Gitter and Discord exist, but they're not any less distracting.
- vikp 8y agoWe moved to Twist (https://twistapp.com https://twistapp.com) a few months ago after having similar issues with Slack. Twist is more forum-like, so you avoid the "I have to jump in now" feeling that a continuous chat stream gives you.
- Jugurtha 8y agoYou can play with settings and see what works best for you. I don't get notifications and only read messages when I'm done doing my stuff or when I'm about to message a coworker.
- katelynsk 8y agoI think Telegram (https://telegram.org/ https://telegram.org/) is quite convenient for communication within a team, however, it is not such the workflow-oriented software as Slack is.
- mbellotti 8y agoI really like Zulip (https://zulipchat.com/ https://zulipchat.com/) because it enforces threading of conversations which makes them so much easier to sort, mute, follow up with after the fact.
- gerenuk 8y agoHave a look at Stride by Atlassian