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> There's nothing stopping you using slack for thoughtful drawn our discussions. Nothing but the UI… limited formatting, poor suitability of threads to the pur

• maccard 7y ago
  I don't disagree it's designed for chat but I do disagree with your other points. It supports a subset of markdown which are the important ones (quotes, unformatted, lists) and ignores things like headings and colouring. I like the limited support. I think threads are great - they allow you to have a side discussion based on a single message with context for anyone who has access to the channel they happen in. Compared to those gigantic email chains where you have 3 or 4 groups having differing conversations in the same thread by quoting what they're replying to...
  • StavrosK 7y ago
    It doesn't matter. It makes synchronous, quick communication easy, so that's what people do. Email forces you to communicate thoughtfully, Slack encourages snap responses.
    • maccard 7y ago
      > Email forces you to communicate thoughtfully, I wholeheartedly disagree. My inbox is full of emails with subjects and no body, one-line half baked questions, non-responses, incorrect information in a body of correct information that gets lost in the sea of noise, broken formatting that render massive email chains totally unreadable. Often times those massive chains of emails have totally diverged from the initial subject and people on the mail.