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My work has more than 100 slack channels (I once asked if there was a place to see a list of all slack channels and was met with laughter. Apparently that isn’t
by irrational 6y ago
My work has more than 100 slack channels (I once asked if there was a place to see a list of all slack channels and was met with laughter. Apparently that isn’t something slack provides?) Whenever I need a question answered by a particular team I’ll post it to what seems like might be the most relevant channel. 99/100 they will direct me to a new channel I’ve never heard from. So I’ll join that channel and post my question. At this point I have about 80 channels spread across 5... whatever groups of channels are called in slack. Frankly it is overwhelming. It would be a full time job just trying to keep up with all the channels (I’d estimate there are 3000-10000 new messages everyday across all channels). I haven’t figured out anyway to know if something has been posted that would interest me under the deluge. On occasion I’ll be searching for something and discover that on a channel a very important announcement or policy change was made recently that I missed under the deluge. Anyway, I’ve given up. I’ve turned off notifications and don’t even open it up unless I have a question that needs answered. Then I start the arduous task of trying to figure out the right channel.
- t-writescode 6y agoThis seems like something you need to discuss with management and your coworkers about changing.
- irrational 6y agoI work for a Fortune 100 company with thousands of IT people. I literally have no idea who I would talk to about this. Maybe there is a slack channel for that ;-)
- t-writescode 6y agoI would start with your immediate boss and maybe his skip-level. For the skip-level come with a precise explanation of what Slack is doing well, what your experience with Slack seems to show for negative and some potential remedies :)
- irrational 6y agoWell, one problem is that I don’t work for the IT department at my company. I’m not sure if my boss (or his boss or his boss’s boss) even knows what slack is.