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>When in reality tons of people spend more and more time "chatting" and trying to communicate in Slack than... actually working. This has always been the cases
by coderintherye 6y ago
>When in reality tons of people spend more and more time "chatting" and trying to communicate in Slack than... actually working.
This has always been the cases. Offices are social environments. Chat formalizes some of that communication, which is actually quite useful. But it doesn't suddenly make a chatty, distracting co-worker less chatty or more productive.
I don't think anyone is arguing that chat is how most work should get done, but rather that it a good tool for promoting legible communication and good communication is one of the most important factors in driving effective work.
- matchbok 6y agoMaybe. But most channels I'm in devolve into multiple cross-team chats that are interspersed and impossible to navigate if you aren't reading the messages as they come in. Hell, searching for topic of discussion that happened more than a few days ago is pretty much impossible in Slack.
- coderintherye 6y agoMy experience of Slack is that their search has gotten better recently, especially when using some of the filters available. That said, I would also agree that search is probably a key area for them to improve on.
- matchbok 6y agoThat exactly. The whole idea of a chatroom as a searchable archive doesn't make sense to me. Chats are quick bites of information that make sense "right now".
- merrvk 6y agoLet alone when someone starts providing some key information in a thread 3 pages up.
- benhurmarcel 6y agoBut a good tool could mitigate that. Mainly by providing an organization per thread and make it easy to catch up only from time to time. Like Zulip or Twist.