> It seems every "how to do Slack right" post emphasizes that you shouldn't use Slack as a chat service. I think these posts tend to emphasize that you should

> It seems every "how to do Slack right" post emphasizes that you shouldn't use Slack as a chat service. I think these posts tend to emphasize that you should use Slack more like IRC. IRC is generally treated as asynchronous. Channels have tens, hundreds or thousands of people idling in them, and you can talk to those people, but you don't know when they'll talk back. Those messages may turn into real time conversations very easily, but they don't have to. That's also why channels are so important. You can ask a bunch of people with knowledge on the topic a question, and someone will probably respond somewhat soon. And if they take a while, you should be right there idling to receive answers even while you aren't available.