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I hate Slack, but for unrelated reasons. Slack has no priority levels. Slack pings you: is it an alert, a question, an outage, or someone sending you a funny g

I hate Slack, but for unrelated reasons. Slack has no priority levels. Slack pings you: is it an alert, a question, an outage, or someone sending you a funny gif? You can’t adjust the relative priority of these alerts, so good luck! I’ve also seen that it regularly replaces documentation for teams. This is an issue, since slack just scrolls forever. You might have memorized the precise sentence to search for (I’ve done this), but good luck to everyone else. All in all I think more companies would be better off with just IRC for ephemeral chats. IRC sets no expectation that you’ll catch up with everything that happened when you were offline, which in this case is good.

aeyes 6y ago
Everybody in a Slack channel can pin important messages, when somebody writes something noteworthy I pin it until it is moved to the documentation.
coffeefirst 6y ago
Yes! The Noise Machine aspects, the sprawling dumpster that is threads, and the fact that there's no way for all 7 people DMing me at once to see that there are 7 of them DMing me at once make the platform an indispensable nightmare. I'm starting to notice that organizations with long term remote experience like Basecamp and Automatic rely a lot more on longer, async communication over instant messaging. There might be something to that.
- EForEndeavour 6y ago
  > the sprawling dumpster that is threads Doesn't the Threads view (Ctrl T, Mac: Cmd T) list all threads you're involved with in chronological order, navigable by mouse or keyboard, and searchable? What's your pain point with threads? > the fact that there's no way for all 7 people DMing me at once to see that there are 7 of them DMing me at once This same objection applies to every other text-based communication medium out there that I'm aware of.
hajile 6y ago
MS Teams has the ability to mark something as important and it isn't such a great feature IMO. Instead, create groups for whatever purpose and use it (eg, an @<team>_devs to avoid blowing up everyone else in the channel). @mentions stand out when you're scrolling through a feed.

aeyes 6y ago

Everybody in a Slack channel can pin important messages, when somebody writes something noteworthy I pin it until it is moved to the documentation.

coffeefirst 6y ago

Yes! The Noise Machine aspects, the sprawling dumpster that is threads, and the fact that there's no way for all 7 people DMing me at once to see that there are 7 of them DMing me at once make the platform an indispensable nightmare. I'm starting to notice that organizations with long term remote experience like Basecamp and Automatic rely a lot more on longer, async communication over instant messaging. There might be something to that.

EForEndeavour 6y ago
> the sprawling dumpster that is threads Doesn't the Threads view (Ctrl T, Mac: Cmd T) list all threads you're involved with in chronological order, navigable by mouse or keyboard, and searchable? What's your pain point with threads? > the fact that there's no way for all 7 people DMing me at once to see that there are 7 of them DMing me at once This same objection applies to every other text-based communication medium out there that I'm aware of.

hajile 6y ago

MS Teams has the ability to mark something as important and it isn't such a great feature IMO. Instead, create groups for whatever purpose and use it (eg, an @<team>_devs to avoid blowing up everyone else in the channel). @mentions stand out when you're scrolling through a feed.