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> If something's important it will come up again So why use it at all? That's rapidly becoming my thought on this Slack mess. If it's important they'll call
by dingaling 8y ago
> If something's important it will come up again
So why use it at all? That's rapidly becoming my thought on this Slack mess.
If it's important they'll call me or send an email. Just like in 2015.
> just say you missed it
Technology is supposed to make data manageable. If it doesn't then it's a failure.
I've deleted the Slack app from my phone. It has progressed through the stages of Usenet in a few years. Now the signal is unrecoverable in the noise. It has failed.
- g3rv4 8y agowhy use it at all? you may not be the one who chooses what tool your team uses for communication.
- strken 8y agoI don't think any technology makes data manageable in the sense that you want it to. Summarising information is still relegated to humans, and filtering noisy sources of information is on you. For instance, your company might have a hundred slack channels and private conversations. You could be interested in five (channels specific to projects you're on, things you're interested in, or non-critical alerts), not interested in ninety (other projects, functional groups you don't care about, other groups' lunch plans), and actively disinterested in another five (#random, #politics-that-make-me-angry, #synergy, #build-system-spam).
- briandear 8y agoThe problem is your team, not the platform. Use channels, be disciplined about what goes on in the channels. Use threads for side conversations. Use private messages when needed.