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What does a good experience with slack look like? Just not getting annoyed by anything?

• raldi 7y ago
  I can be away for a few days, catch up quickly, and add a comment to a conversation that ended long ago and know that the participants will actually see it. All thanks to threads.
  • drb91 7y ago
    Catching up quickly is not something I associate with slack—mostly missing things, actually. This is obviously a hard problem to solve without just making it back into email. Muting apps that spam notifications for someone else’s benefit would be a great start. Not allowing bots to spam new threads at you and cleaning up old threads automatically would also be great—having a ton of old threads brings the client to its knees on my dual core laptop.
    • raldi 7y ago
      How thready is your slack's culture?
      • drb91 7y ago
        Somewhere in between real-time chat and email. I'm not sure how threads would help keep track of things though—they're unnamed and you have to scroll through them at an absolute glacial speed, and there's no way to bulk unfollow, so with about six hours of normal use a conversation is lost to the sands of time forever. Slack just sucks for anything you need to find again, IMHO, it should be treated like it's ephemeral. The logs are worth keeping as leverage against employees of course.